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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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2017-02-27T07:25:00
Updated: 2024-08-05T15:18:48.777Z
Reserved: 2017-02-07T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2017-5926
Vulnrichment
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2017-02-27T07:59:00.207
Modified: 2024-11-21T03:28:40.857
Link: CVE-2017-5926
Redhat
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