Page table walks conducted by the MMU during virtual to physical address translation leave a trace in the last level cache of modern ARM 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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-02-27T07:25:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T15:18:48.841Z

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

Link: CVE-2017-5927

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-02-27T07:59:00.237

Modified: 2017-03-02T02:59:02.493

Link: CVE-2017-5927

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