Re:Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Com...
by blauditore on Thursday August 23, 2018 @02:16AM
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Have timing attacks been done successfully in JS? I imagine it's much harder since you have much less low-level control and the engine might impose too much noise. However, wasm is a different story.
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Re:Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Com...
by extrapickles on Thursday August 23, 2018 @02:33AM
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Yes, Someone did an ASLR bypass in JavaScript, and a key component was being able to measure time accurately.
https://www.cs.vu.nl/~herbertb/download/papers/anc_ndss17.pd...
Re:Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Com...
by josefx on Thursday August 23, 2018 @03:05AM
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I think browsers currently have to limit the precision of their built-in timer APIs and they had to kill shared mutable state support for their thread APIs so attackers couldn't implement their own.