Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Firefox

While the text displayed in Autofill tooltips cannot be directly read by JavaScript, it was rendered using page fonts. Side-channel attacks on the text using specially crafted fonts could have led to this text being interpreted by the webpage. This vulnerability affects Firefox versions earlier...

CompLeak: Deep Learning Model Compression Exacerbates Privacy Leakage

Model compression is crucial for minimizing memory storage and accelerating inference in deep learning DL models, including recent foundation models like large language models LLMs. Users can access different compressed model versions according to their resources and budget. However, while existi...

Inference Attacks for X-Vector Speaker Anonymization

We revisit the privacy-utility tradeoff of x-vector speaker anonymization. Existing approaches quantify privacy through training complex speaker verification or identification models that are later used as attacks. Instead, we propose a novel inference attack for de-anonymization. Our attack is...

DeSIA: Attribute Inference Attacks against Limited Fixed Aggregate Statistics

Empirical inference attacks are a popular approach for evaluating the privacy risk of data release mechanisms in practice. While an active attack literature exists to evaluate machine learning models or synthetic data release, we currently lack comparable methods for fixed aggregate statistics, i...

CVE-2020-10369

Certain Cypress (and Broadcom) Wireless Combo chips are vulnerable to a "Spectra" attack if a January 2021 firmware update is not present. This vulnerability allows an attacker to make inferences about memory content . No specific exploit links or detailed technical root causes beyond the attack ...

hw: L1D Cache Eviction Sampling

A microarchitectural timing flaw was found on some Intel processors. A corner case exists where data in-flight during the eviction process can end up in the “fill buffers” and not properly cleared by the MDS mitigations. The fill buffer contents which were expected to be blank can be inferred usi...