CVE-2017-5925

Page table walks conducted by the MMU during virtual to physical address translation leave a trace in the last level cache of modern Intel processors. By performing a side-channel attack on the MMU operations, it is possible to leak data and code pointers from JavaScript, breaking ASLR.

Date published : 2017-02-27

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96452

http://www.cs.vu.nl/~herbertb/download/papers/anc_ndss17.pdf