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
Link Resource
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~herbertb/download/papers/anc_ndss17.pdf Exploit Technical Description Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96457
https://www.vusec.net/projects/anc Exploit Technical Description Third Party Advisory
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-02-27T07:25:00

Updated: 2017-03-01T10:57:01

Reserved: 2017-02-07T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2017-5926

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-02-27T07:59:00.207

Modified: 2017-03-02T02:59:02.447


Link: CVE-2017-5926

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