CVE-2017-5926
high
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
7.5
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| sles | affected | |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| intel | atom_c2750 | - | |
| intel | celeron_n2840 | - | |
| intel | core_i5_m480 | - | |
| intel | core_i7-2620qm | - | |
| intel | core_i7-3632qm | - | |
| intel | core_i7-4500u | - | |
| intel | core_i7-6700k | - | |
| intel | core_i7_920 | - | |
| intel | xeon_e3-1240_v5 | - | |
| intel | xeon_e5-2658_v2 | - | |
| amd | athlon_ii_640_x4 | - | |
| amd | e-350 | - | |
| amd | fx-8120_8-core | - | |
| amd | fx-8320_8-core | - | |
| amd | fx-8350_8-core | - | |
| amd | phenom_9550_4-core | - | |
| nvidia | tegra_k1_cd570m-a1 | - | |
| nvidia | tegra_k1_cd580m-a1 | - | |
References
CWEs
CWE-200
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
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