Re:Downfall Attacks
by bhk on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @09:37PM
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Regarding VM/core/chip/motherboard boundaries ...
A number of vexing CPU security vulnerabilities have resulted from a general class of optimizations that share cache resources (memory, TLBs, branch prediction tables, etc.) across different domains, which enables cross-domain attacks.
There is a potential for vulnerabilities even when the domains are separated by a network boundary ... if those domains view the world through some shared cache at the network layer.
A number of vexing CPU security vulnerabilities have resulted from a general class of optimizations that share cache resources (memory, TLBs, branch prediction tables, etc.) across different domains, which enables cross-domain attacks.
There is a potential for vulnerabilities even when the domains are separated by a network boundary ... if those domains view the world through some shared cache at the network layer.