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While Intel does this on a daily basis, this time its different.
Thats because this time, the flaw made the CPU enter a state where normal rules dont apply.
The CPU would glitch out entirely, and the benchmark would give results that simply shouldnt be possible.
The flaw is now dubbed Reptar, and can be tracked as CVE-2023-23583.
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When they want to change how the instruction works, they use prefixes.
This feature was first added in the Ice Lake architecture, to fix microcoding bottlenecks,ArsTechnicareported.
Oddly, when trying to understand what was happening we would see a debugger reporting impossible states!
The full list of affected CPUs can be foundhere.
