CVE-2017-5925

7.5HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor
Intel
Status
Core I7-2620qm
Core I7-6700k
Core I5 M480
Fx-8120 8-core
Vendor
CVE Published:
27 February 2017

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.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96452
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~herbertb/download/papers/anc_ndss17.pdf
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https://www.vusec.net/projects/anc
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.5
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
None
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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