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Date:      Thu, 04 Jan 2018 15:49:41 +0100
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        Eric McCorkle <eric@metricspace.net>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Intel hardware bug
Message-ID:  <86zi5tu1a2.fsf@desk.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <0bb7ffc6-fa51-98db-9dc1-1bd49e1c7b44@metricspace.net> (Eric McCorkle's message of "Wed, 3 Jan 2018 22:01:45 -0500")
References:  <19097.1515012519@segfault.tristatelogic.com> <02563ce4-437c-ab96-54bb-a8b591900ba0@FreeBSD.org> <7C58A6DB-0760-4E5A-B65D-2ED6A6B7AAD2@acsalaska.net> <867esy2vwz.fsf@desk.des.no> <0bb7ffc6-fa51-98db-9dc1-1bd49e1c7b44@metricspace.net>

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Eric McCorkle <eric@metricspace.net> writes:
> Given enough skill, resources, and motivation, it's likely that an
> attacker could craft a javascript-based version of the attack, then
> every javascript website (aka all of them) is a potential attack vector.

Uh, this has already been demonstrated.  According to Google, Chrome 64
(to be released in a few days) includes countermeasures against it.  I
don't have any further details.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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