Speculative register leakage from lazy FPU context switching

ISSUE DESCRIPTION x86 has a hardware mechanism for lazy FPU context switching. On a task switch, %cr0.ts Task Switched gets set, and the next instruction to touch floating point state raises an NM No Math, later known as Device Not Available exception. Traditionally, FPU state has been large in...

New Spectre (Variant 4) CPU Flaw Discovered—Intel, ARM, AMD Affected

Security researchers from Microsoft and Google have discovered a fourth variant of the data-leaking Meltdown-Spectre security flaws impacting modern CPUs in millions of computers, including those marketed by Apple. Variant 4 comes weeks after German computer magazine Heise reported about a set of...

Microsoft Guidance for Speculative Store Bypass

Executive summary On January 3, 2018, Microsoft released an advisory and security updates related to a newly-discovered class of hardware vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown involving speculative execution side channels that affect AMD, ARM, and Intel CPUs to varying degrees. On May 21s...

8 New Spectre-Class Vulnerabilities (Spectre-NG) Found in Intel CPUs

A team of security researchers has reportedly discovered a total of eight new "Spectre-class" vulnerabilities in Intel CPUs, which also affect at least a small number of ARM processors and may impact AMD processor architecture as well. Dubbed Spectre-Next Generation, or Spectre-NG, the partial...

8 New Spectre-Class Vulnerabilities (Spectre-NG) Found in Intel CPUs

A team of security researchers has reportedly discovered a total of eight new "Spectre-class" vulnerabilities in Intel CPUs, which also affect at least a small number of ARM processors and may impact AMD processor architecture as well. Dubbed Spectre-Next Generation , or Spectre-NG , the partial...

The vulnerabilities of Intel, ARM, and AMD processors stem from the unique workings of the branch prediction module, which allows attackers to exploit the protected information.

The vulnerabilities of Intel, ARM, and AMD processors are related to the characteristics of the branch prediction module’s operation. Exploiting these vulnerabilities allows attackers to gain access to protected memory from a program that does not have the necessary privileges, by creating...

The vulnerability of Intel and ARM processors is caused by a memory access control error during speculative execution of processor instructions, allowing attackers to disclose protected information.

The vulnerabilities of Intel and ARM processors stem from errors in memory access control during speculative execution of processor instructions. Exploiting these vulnerabilities allows attackers to gain access to protected memory from a program that does not have the necessary privileges. This i...

HPESBHF03805 rev.24 - Certain HPE products using Microprocessors from Intel, AMD, and ARM, with Speculative Execution, Elevation of Privilege and Information Disclosure (CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5754)

Potential Security Impact: Local: Disclosure of Information, Elevation of Privilege SUPPORTED SOFTWARE VERSIONS: ONLY impacted versions are listed. HPE ProLiant DL120 Gen10 Server - prior to 1.3202-01-201816 Feb 2018 HPE ProLiant DL160 Gen10 Server - prior to 1.3202-01-201816 Feb 2018 HPE ProLian...

Design/Logic Flaw

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

CVE-2017-5927

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

CVE-2017-5927

CVE-2017-5927 affects ARM processors where page table walks by the MMU during virtual-to-physical address translation leave traces in the last-level cache. A side-channel attack via JavaScript can infer memory and code pointers, breaking ASLR. The linked SUSE entry and related coverage confirm th...

CVE-2016-0805

The performance event manager for Qualcomm ARM processors in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.x before 5.1.1 LMY49G, and 6.x before 2016-02-01 allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka internal bug 25773204...

Design/Logic Flaw

The performance event manager for Qualcomm ARM processors in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.x before 5.1.1 LMY49G, and 6.x before 2016-02-01 allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka internal bug 25773204...

CVE-2016-0805

The performance event manager for Qualcomm ARM processors in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.x before 5.1.1 LMY49G, and 6.x before 2016-02-01 allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka internal bug 25773204...

CVE-2016-0805

CVE-2016-0805 affects Qualcomm ARM kernels, specifically the Qualcomm Performance Module in Android. The issue resides in the kernel function get_krait_evtinfo, which returns an index into an array used by other kernel functions; crafted input can generate a malicious index and cause a buffer ove...

CVE-2016-0805

The performance event manager for Qualcomm ARM processors in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.x before 5.1.1 LMY49G, and 6.x before 2016-02-01 allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka internal bug 25773204...

All about Microsoft Windows 8 !

Only Microsoft knows how the abutting adaptation of its Windows operating arrangement will attending and what it will be called, but big changes could be advanced for the OS that assemblage accredit to as "Windows 8." At this year's Consumer Electronics Appearance in Las Vegas, Microsoft appear...