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SLAM Attack: New Spectre-based Vulnerability Impacts Intel, AMD, and Arm CPUs

Written by Nathan Zych | Dec 12, 2023 4:58:55 PM

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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