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CVE-2005-0109

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 mali…

Impact

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
FreebsdFreebsd
Versions 1.1.5.1, 2.0, 2.0.5, 2.1.0, 2.1.5, 2.1.6
RedhatEnterprise Linux
Versions 2.1, 3.0, 4.0
RedhatEnterprise Linux Desktop
Versions 3.0, 4.0
RedhatFedora Core
Version core_3.0
ScoOpenserver
Version 5.0.7
ScoUnixware
Versions 7.1.3, 7.1.3_up, 7.1.4
SunSolaris
Versions 7.0, 8.0, 9.0, 10.0
UbuntuUbuntu Linux
Versions 4.1, 5.04

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