[Whonix-devel] Fwd: [hw-dev] DRAMA: Exploiting DRAM Addressing for Cross-CPU Attacks

Tue Dec 27 00:08:01 CET 2016

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Subject: [hw-dev] DRAMA: Exploiting DRAM Addressing for Cross-CPU 
Attacks
Date: 2016-12-27 00:05
 From: bancfc at openmailbox.org
To: hw-dev at groups.riscv.org

Hello. There are some architectural weaknesses in commonly deployed 
hardware that allows for side-channel attacks across VMs that share 
DRAM:

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity16/sec16_paper_pessl.pdf

Thanks to RISCV's open nature, there is more chances for designing 
around this and mitigating it at the lowest level.