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Google Cloud Warns Three AMD Turin CPU Flaws Could Leak Data Across Processes in VMs

Google Cloud VMs on AMD Turin chips need a guest OS patch and a stop-and-start to protect against three CPU side-channel flaws, Google said this week. The company has already applied mitigations against attacks between VMs, and between VMs and the host. Inside a VM, the flaws may let an attacker with code on the same processor core infer data from other processes or the kernel.

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November 12, 2026 · 1 min read

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Google Cloud VMs on AMD Turin chips need a guest OS patch and a stop-and-start to protect against three CPU side-channel flaws, Google said this week. The company has already applied mitigations against attacks between VMs, and between VMs and the host. Inside a VM, the flaws may let an attacker with code on the same processor core infer data from other processes or the kernel. The affected

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