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Old 20th October 2016
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Default 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.
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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Old 21st October 2016
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The "some people" referenced above in Shawn Webb, the person behind HardenedBSD. Whether or not his knowledge and expertise in OS security is meaningful in commenting on the article is of course an exercise left up to the reader.
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Old 15th February 2017
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Another attack on ALSR
https://arstechnica.com/security/201...-much-nastier/

Imho ALSR is not broken in all cases, but only when attacker makes victim to execute malicious program, be it native OS application or Javascript on the web page. It is still good protection against untrusted data parsed by programs such as PDF readers, image viewers, multimedia players.
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