Detections
Analytics
CVE-2017-5926
high
Description
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.
References
https://www.vusec.net/projects/anc
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96457
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~herbertb/download/papers/anc_ndss17.pdf