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>> NetBSD Security Update Fixes Hyper-Threading Technology Issue

Title : NetBSD Security Update Fixes Hyper-Threading Technology Issue
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2005-0937
CVE ID : CVE-2005-0109
CWE ID : VUPEN VNS Only
CVSS V2 : VUPEN VNS Only
Rated as : Low Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2005-07-01


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A vulnerability was identified in NetBSD, which may be exploited by local attackers to deduce potentially secret data from another executing thread. The flaw is due to an error in the Hyper-Threading Technology (HTT), which may cause information to be disclosed to local users. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2005-0540

Affected Products

NetBSD-current
NetBSD 2.0

Solution

Disable the HyperThreading support.

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0937
ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2005-001.txt.asc

ChangeLog

2005-07-01 : Initial release

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