suse · CVE-2017-5925

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Priority: low Published: 2021-05-30 13:53:11 UTC Updated: 2025-04-22 23:44:45 UTC

View at Official suse advisory, NVD, CVE.org · CVE detail

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Tracker 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.

Description:

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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