GCP was "fully fixed before it was known" according to the engineers I know there. I find it /highly/ unlikely that they don't have patched microcode.
I mean, the cloud business is the place with the most to lose from these kinds of issues, I am incredibly suspicious of the claim that cloud providers aren't patching their microcode.
Whether it's intels or their own modified variant of microcode I would fully expect them to be patched in some way.
Google's researchers played a big part in discovering / classifying / mitigating the vulnerabilities. They also developed the retpoline pattern. It is very likely that GCP was "fixed before it was known."
dijit|6 years ago
I mean, the cloud business is the place with the most to lose from these kinds of issues, I am incredibly suspicious of the claim that cloud providers aren't patching their microcode.
Whether it's intels or their own modified variant of microcode I would fully expect them to be patched in some way.
caspper69|6 years ago