Researchers Bypass ASLR Protection on Intel Haswell CPUs
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A team of scientists from two US universities has devised a method of bypassing ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization) protection by taking advantage of the BTB (Branch Target Buffer), a component included in many modern CPU architectures, including Intel Haswell CPUs, the processor they used for tests in their research.
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http://news.softpedia.com/news/resea...u-509460.shtml
http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~nael/pubs/micro16.pdf
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Some people argue that attack is not such a problem, because attack not remote.
https://gist.github.com/lattera/c785...addf8c6017c7d0
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Last edited by e1-531g; 20th October 2016 at 09:42 AM.
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