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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello LLVM Community,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Today, a new vulnerability called Load Value Injection (LVI) has been disclosed.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A brief document describing the vulnerability can be found here:
<a href="https://software.intel.com/security-software-guidance/software-guidance/load-value-injection">
https://software.intel.com/security-software-guidance/software-guidance/load-value-injection</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A more detailed document can be found here: <a href="https://software.intel.com/security-software-guidance/insights/deep-dive-load-value-injection">
https://software.intel.com/security-software-guidance/insights/deep-dive-load-value-injection</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A complete patch to LLVM has been pushed to Phabricator: <a href="https://reviews.llvm.org/D75938">
https://reviews.llvm.org/D75938</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The complete patch has been decomposed into 5 sub-patches:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://reviews.llvm.org/D75932">https://reviews.llvm.org/D75932</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://reviews.llvm.org/D75934">https://reviews.llvm.org/D75934</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://reviews.llvm.org/D75935">https://reviews.llvm.org/D75935</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://reviews.llvm.org/D75936">https://reviews.llvm.org/D75936</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://reviews.llvm.org/D75937">https://reviews.llvm.org/D75937</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A plugin that uses the SYMPHONY Mixed Integer-Linear Programming (MILP) solver to provide optimal mitigation can be found here:
<a href="https://github.com/intel/lvi-llvm-optimization-plugin">https://github.com/intel/lvi-llvm-optimization-plugin</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(If this link does not work, then the following link might: <a href="https://github.com/intel/LLVM-Optimization-Plugin">
https://github.com/intel/LLVM-Optimization-Plugin</a>)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A document describing the optimization in more detail will also be published shortly.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks and Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Scott Constable<o:p></o:p></p>
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