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Hyper-Threading technology as used in FreeBSD and other operating systems that are run on Intel Pentium and other processors allows local users to use a malicious thread to create covert channels monitor the execution of other threads and obtain sensitive information such as cryptographic keys via a timing attack on memory cache misses.
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Hyper-Threading technology as used in FreeBSD and other operating systems that are run on Intel Pentium and other processors allows local users to use a malicious thread to create covert channels monitor the execution of other threads and obtain sensitive information such as cryptographic keys via a timing attack on memory cache misses.
Family:
unix
Status:
ACCEPTED
Platform(s):
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
- CentOS Linux 4
- Oracle Linux 4
- CentOS Linux 3
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Class:
vulnerability
Reference(s):
- CVE-2005-0109
Product(s):