Description
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.
Published: 2017-02-27
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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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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Allwinner A64
Amd Athlon Ii 640 X4 E-350 Fx-8120 8-core Fx-8320 8-core Fx-8350 8-core Phenom 9550 4-core
Intel Atom C2750 Celeron N2840 Core I5 M480 Core I7-2620qm Core I7-3632qm Core I7-4500u Core I7-6700k Core I7 920 Xeon E3-1240 V5 Xeon E5-2658 V2
Nvidia Tegra K1 Cd570m-a1 Tegra K1 Cd580m-a1
Samsung Exynos 5800
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

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

Reserved: 2017-02-07T00:00:00.000Z

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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