ubuntu · CVE-2005-0109

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Priority: medium Published: 2005-03-05 05:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-07-17 16:34:45 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2005-0109 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (kfreebsd-5), 4 status rows across 4 suites (dapper, edgy, feisty, upstream): released 3, needs-triage 1.

Description:

Hyper-Threading technology, as used in FreeBSD and other operating systems that are run on Intel Pentium and other processors, allows local users to use a malicious thread to create covert channels, monitor the execution of other threads, and obtain sensitive information such as cryptographic keys, via a timing attack on memory cache misses.

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