CVE-2017-5926

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

• CWE-200

• http://www.cs.vu.nl/~herbertb/download/papers/anc_ndss17.pdfExploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96457
• https://www.vusec.net/projects/ancExploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.cs.vu.nl/~herbertb/download/papers/anc_ndss17.pdfExploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96457
• https://www.vusec.net/projects/ancExploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory

Published

Feb 27, 2017

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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