CVE-2005-0109

Description

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.

Primary references

• cve@mitre.org — Mailing List
• cve@mitre.org — Mailing List
• cve@mitre.org — Mailing List
• cve@mitre.org — Permissions Required
• cve@mitre.org — Permissions Required
• cve@mitre.org — Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry, Vendor Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Vendor Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Broken Link
• cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource