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CVE-2017-5926 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 oper...

HighCVSS 7.5 EPSS 1.6%
Published
Updated
Exploit status
No public exploit known

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.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
Allwinner a64 All versions No fix listed
amd athlon ii 640 x4 All versions No fix listed
amd e-350 All versions No fix listed
amd fx-8120 8-core All versions No fix listed
amd fx-8320 8-core All versions No fix listed
amd fx-8350 8-core All versions No fix listed
amd phenom 9550 4-core All versions No fix listed
intel atom c2750 All versions No fix listed
intel celeron n2840 All versions No fix listed
intel core i5 m480 All versions No fix listed
intel core i7-2620qm All versions No fix listed
intel core i7-3632qm All versions No fix listed
intel core i7-4500u All versions No fix listed
intel core i7-6700k All versions No fix listed
intel core i7 920 All versions No fix listed
intel xeon e3-1240 v5 All versions No fix listed
intel xeon e5-2658 v2 All versions No fix listed
NVIDIA tegra k1 cd570m-a1 All versions No fix listed
NVIDIA tegra k1 cd580m-a1 All versions No fix listed
samsung exynos 5800 All versions No fix listed

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