CVE-2005-0109

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.6
Exploit probability—
ProductFreebsd
PublishedMar 5, 2005
First seenMar 5, 2005

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
freebsd freebsd1.1.5.1, 2.0, 2.0.5, 2.1.0, 2.1.5, 2.1.6, 2.1.6.1, 2.1.7.1, 2.2, 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 2.2.4, 2.2.5, 2.2.6, 2.2.8, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.5.1, 4.0, 4.1, 4.1.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.8, 4.9, 4.10, 4.11, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 5.2.1, 5.3, 5.4—
redhat enterprise_linux2.1, 3.0, 4.0—
redhat enterprise_linux_desktop3.0, 4.0—
redhat fedora_corecore_3.0—
sco openserver5.0.7—
sco unixware7.1.3, 7.1.3_up, 7.1.4—
sun solaris7.0, 8.0, 9.0, 10.0—
ubuntu ubuntu_linux4.1, 5.04—

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