Re:MDS: Microarchitectural Data Sampling side-channel vulner...
by ivl on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @04:19PM
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Decade and a half, even. If I remember right, the first CVE for an HT security flaw was summer 2005.
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Re:MDS: Microarchitectural Data Sampling side-channel vulner...
by cperciva on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @07:42PM
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I announced it publicly 14 years ago yesterday.
Re:MDS: Microarchitectural Data Sampling side-channel vulner...
by mmastrac on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @11:23PM
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This one? https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-0109
Dang: "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."
Also, found elsewhere:
"According to Linus Torvalds and others on linux-kernel this is a theoretical attack, paranoid people should disable hyper threading"