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KAISER is developed to mitigate another less severe vulnerability.

From the meltdown paper:

> We show that the KAISER defense mechanism for KASLR [8] has the important (but inadvertent) side effect of impeding Meltdown. We stress that KAISER must be deployed immediately to prevent large-scale exploitation of this severe information leakage.



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