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.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2005-03-08T05:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-07T20:57:41.235Z
Reserved: 2005-01-18T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2005-0109
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2005-03-05T05:00:00.000
Modified: 2024-11-20T23:54:26.427
Link: CVE-2005-0109
Redhat