Processor Vulnerabilities – Meltdown and Spectre effected VMware products

Vulnerabilities potentially impacting all major processor vendors were disclosed today by Google Project Zero. These vulnerabilities have been named Meltdown (CVE-2017-5754) and Spectre (CVE-2017-5753 & CVE-2017-5715). Organizations should inventory their systems by processor type, apply vendor patches as they become available, and track their progress Overview Meltdown allows any application to access all system memory, including memory allocated for the kernel.…