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It allows the attacker to steal data like e.g. your (root) password.


Only while it's stored unencrypted in memory, right?


My reading of the article was that memory is not directly compromised, but CPU registers. So loaded unencrypted in one of the affected registers.


As is the case whenever you type it in, yes




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