Saint EVICT+TIME / AnC / ASLR+Cache

Technical record

Disclosed on

February 15 2017

CVE

CVE-2017-5925CVE-2017-5926CVE-2017-5927CVE-2017-5928

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

Sources: vusec.net · ndss-symposium.org · eprint.iacr.org