Security Advisory

CVE-2018-9056

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2018-03-27 17:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 07:10:47
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel attack on the directional branch predictor, as demonstrated by a pattern history table (PHT), aka BranchScope.