The CVEs addressing the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities introduce the possibility of reduced performance on patched systems. The attacks target commonly used optimizations that were designed to improve performance; accordingly, correcting the security vulnerabilities comes at a performance price for some workloads.

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• Learn how you can make the best security and performance decision for your organization when addressing these security issues
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• Ask the experts your questions about the speculative execution CVEs

If you need additional information about the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, check out the Red Hat Customer Portal Vulnerability Response.