Google Cloud orders Turin VM patches and restarts for three AMD CPU flaws
Google Cloud says virtual machines on AMD Turin chips need a guest operating system patch and a stop-start cycle to reduce exposure to three CPU side-channel flaws. It says the current mitigations already cover attacks between virtual machines and between virtual machines and the host, while the inside-a-VM risk remains for an attacker running code on the same processor core. Affected Google Cloud services and machine types The affected machine…