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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| Source | ID | Title |
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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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Status : Deferred
Published: 2017-02-27T07:59:00.207
Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860
Link: CVE-2017-5926
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