develop them for most processors dating back to 2007 including the Core 2 Duo; however, a month later in April 2018, it announced it was backing off that plan for a number of processor families and that no processor earlier than 2008 would have a patch available. On 8 October 2018, Intel was reported to have added hardware and firmware mitigations regarding Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities to its latest processors. See also Intel Management Engine – an Intel subsystem which was discovered to have a major security vulnerability in 2017 Pentium F00F bug Pentium FDIV bug Row hammer – an unintended side effect in dynamic random-access memory causing memory cells to interact electrically SPOILER − a Spectre-like, though unrelated, vulnerability affecting only Intel microprocessors, disclosed in 2019. References External links Official website of the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities Google Project Zero write-up CVE-2017-5754 at National Vulnerability Database Meltdown's proof-of-concept released by researchers that also published the meltdown paper. Am I Affected by Meltdown – Meltdown Checker Tool created by Raphael S. Carvalho Meltdown/Spectre Checker Gibson Research Corporation 2018 in computing Computer security exploits Hardware bugs Intel x86 microprocessors Side-channel attacks Speculative execution security vulnerabilities X86 architecture X86 memory management