Abstract:
Meltdown and Spectre are two of the most dangerous vulnerabilities that are discovered by the
researchers of google from “Google zero project”. These vulnerabilities are hardware based
processor vulnerability. Sensitive information’s like username, password, email and many other
necessary data can be disclosed by the proper execution of side channel attacks. As these
vulnerabilities are mainly hardware based processors vulnerability, its proper mitigations are
only possible if hardware architecture modifications are performed. However, patching the
system is the only solution. Although respective vendors has already released patches to mitigate
the effects, that resulting continuously slowing down the system and reducing the performance.
