Page table walks conducted by the MMU during virtual to physical address translation leave a trace in the last level cache of modern AMD processors. By performing a side-channel attack on the MMU operations, it is possible to leak data and code pointers from JavaScript, breaking ASLR.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-15001 Page table walks conducted by the MMU during virtual to physical address translation leave a trace in the last level cache of modern AMD processors. By performing a side-channel attack on the MMU operations, it is possible to leak data and code pointers from JavaScript, breaking ASLR.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T15:18:48.777Z

Reserved: 2017-02-07T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-5926

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-02-27T07:59:00.207

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-5926

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