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speed47 / spectre-meltdown-checker

Reptar, Downfall, Zenbleed, ZombieLoad, RIDL, Fallout, Foreshadow, Spectre, Meltdown vulnerability/mitigation checker for Linux & BSD
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New vulnerability: "Blindside" #374

Open owlshrimp opened 4 years ago

owlshrimp commented 4 years ago

Hi,

See https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=BlindSide for demo.

On the bright side(?), it seems to require a real, existing kernel memory overflow bug to work. It just manages to exploit it without bringing down the system.