Security News > 2023 > December > SLAM Attack: New Spectre-based Vulnerability Impacts Intel, AMD, and Arm CPUs
2023-12-09 11:52
Researchers from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam have disclosed a new side-channel attack called SLAM that could be exploited to leak sensitive information from kernel memory on current and upcoming CPUs from Intel, AMD, and Arm. The attack is an end-to-end exploit for Spectre based on a new feature in Intel CPUs called Linear Address Masking (LAM) as well as its analogous
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