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Feast day November 2

P PortSmash CVE-2018-5407
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Saint PortSmash

Hagiography in preparation at the scriptorium.

Technical record

Disclosed on
November 2 2018
CVE
CVE-2018-5407
Product
N/A · Processors supporting Simultaneous Multi-Threading

Simultaneous Multi-threading (SMT) in processors can enable local users to exploit software vulnerable to timing attacks via a side-channel timing attack on 'port contention'.

Sources: seclists.org · github.com

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