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CVE-2005-0109

Severity Medium
Score 5.6/10

Summary

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.

  • HIGH
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • CHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • HIGH
  • NONE

References

Advisory Timeline

  • Published