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  Introduction Recently a number of different micro architecture attacks on Kernel Address Space Layout Randomization(KASLR) have been published. The idea behind KASLRis that code reuse attacks and read/write primitives are useless if the attacker is unable to tell where what code/data is. Consequently modern operating system randomizes the virtual addresses where code/data is stored. … Continue reading “Micro architecture attacks on KASLR”

Introduction In this blog post I’ll speculate as to how we ended up with multiple researchers arriving at the same vulnerabilities in modern CPU’s concurrently. The conclusion is that the bug was ripe because of a years long build up of knowledge about CPU security, carried out by many research groups. I’ll also detail the … Continue reading “Behind the scenes of a bug collision”