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PortSmash flaw in Hyper-Threading CPU could allow sensitive data theft

PortSmash side-channel flaw that could be exploited with a timing attack to steal information from other processes running in the same CPU core with SMT/hyper-threading enabled. Experts successfully tested flaw against Intel Skylake and KabyLake processors, but they expect it works also on AMD Ryzen processors. Experts also published a proof-of-concept exploit that targets OpenSSL, maintainers of the library addressed the flaw with the release of the OpenSSL 1.1.1.”]

Source: https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/77671/hacking/portsmash-flaw.html

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