Questions tagged [kaslr]
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Which attacks are known that exploit the vulnerability known as Spectre?
As reported yesterday the Linux and Windows kernels will receive a security update pretty soon to close vulnerabilities that concern 'kernel memory leaking'.
What exactly the design flaw is, that was probably identified at the end of 2017, is…
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how did the meltdown attack break KASLR in 128 steps for a target machine with 8GB RAM with 40bit randomization on a 64bit machine?
In the meltdown official paper released the authors broke the KASLR with 128 steps at worse. Unable to understand how did they come down to that number
Paper for reference
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