We contemplated putting together an LWN article on the “microarchitectural
data sampling” (MDS) vulnerabilities, as we’ve done for past
speculative-execution issues. But the truth of the matter is that it’s
really more of the same, and there is a lot of material out there on the
net already. So, for those who would like to learn more, here’s a list of
resources.

• This
  page from the kernel documentation contains a fairly detailed
  description of the problem and this
  page has mitigation information.
• ZombieLoadAttack.com
  describes the ZombieLoad MDS attack and, in particular, contains this paper
  [PDF] from Michael Schwarz et al. with the details.

• mdsattacks.com holds academic
  papers on the Fallout
  [PDF] (Marina Minkin et al.) and RIDL [PDF] (Stephan
  van Schaik et al.) attacks.

• Jon Masters has written an
  overview article complete with a three-minute video on the
  vulnerabilities and their exploits. For those wanting more Masters,
  there is also a
  longer video that goes deeper.
• Here is Intel’s
  “deep dive” into the MDS vulnerabilities.
• Cerberus Technology has put up an
  overview article that discusses some of the possible attacks
  enabled by the MDS vulnerabilities.

Source: LWN.net – An MDS reading list