CVE-2005-0109

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CVE-2005-0109

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Upstream information

CVE-2005-0109 at MITRE

Description

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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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	4.7
Vector	AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Complete
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	None

SUSE Bugzilla entries: 1113534 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 82866 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 86410 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 00:56:26 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Oct 7 12:45:29 2022