Vigil@nce - Arm Cortex Processors: information disclosure via Straight Line Speculation
July 2020 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: FreeBSD, GCC, Linux, OpenBSD.
Severity: 1/4.
Consequences: data reading.
Provenance: user shell.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 17/06/2020.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can bypass access restrictions to data via Straight
Line Speculation of Arm Cortex Processors, in order to obtain
sensitive information.
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