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samedi 14 mai 2005

FreeBSD: Hyper-Threading Vulnerability

FreeBSD: Hyper-Threading Vulnerability: "FreeBSD: Hyper-Threading Vulnerability"

Colin Percival, a FreeBSD committer and security team member, has found a local exploit against the current implementation of Intel's Hyper-Threading Technology. "Hyper-Threading, as currently implemented on Intel Pentium Extreme Edition, Pentium 4, Mobile Pentium 4, and Xeon processors, suffers from a serious security flaw," Colin explains. "This flaw permits local information disclosure, including allowing an unprivileged user to steal an RSA private key being used on the same machine. Administrators of multi-user systems are strongly advised to take action to disable Hyper-Threading immediatelly

HTT paper Here

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