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CVE-2017-5925

Page table walks conducted by the MMU during virtual to physical address translation leave a trace in the last level cache of modern Intel p

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Summary

Page table walks conducted by the MMU during virtual to physical address translation leave a trace in the last level cache of modern Intel 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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References 3

securityfocus.com

cs.vu.nl

vusec.net