Description (CNA)
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.
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| n/a / n/a | affected n/a |
CWE
No CWE identifiers supplied.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96452
- http://www.cs.vu.nl/~herbertb/download/papers/anc_ndss17.pdf
- https://www.vusec.net/projects/anc
ADP enrichment
No English description supplied.