CVE-2005-0109

Severity

47%

Complexity

34%

Confidentiality

115%

Hyper-Threading technology, as used in FreeBSD and other operating systems that are run on Intel Pentium and other processors, allows local users to use a malicious thread to create covert channels, monitor the execution of other threads, and obtain sensitive information such as cryptographic keys, via a timing attack on memory cache misses.

Hyper-Threading technology, as used in FreeBSD and other operating systems that are run on Intel Pentium and other processors, allows local users to use a malicious thread to create covert channels, monitor the execution of other threads, and obtain sensitive information such as cryptographic keys, via a timing attack on memory cache misses.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 5.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.7. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N).

Overview

First reported 19 years ago

2005-03-05 05:00:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-16 12:06:00

Affected Software

FreeBSD 1.1.5.1

1.1.5.1

FreeBSD 2.0

2.0

FreeBSD 2.0.5

2.0.5

FreeBSD 2.1.0

2.1.0

FreeBSD 2.1.5

2.1.5

FreeBSD 2.1.6

2.1.6

FreeBSD 2.1.6.1

2.1.6.1

FreeBSD 2.1.7.1

2.1.7.1

FreeBSD 2.2

2.2

FreeBSD 2.2.2

2.2.2

FreeBSD 2.2.3

2.2.3

FreeBSD 2.2.4

2.2.4

FreeBSD 2.2.5

2.2.5

FreeBSD 2.2.6

2.2.6

FreeBSD 2.2.8

2.2.8

FreeBSD 3.0

3.0

FreeBSD 3.1

3.1

FreeBSD 3.2

3.2

FreeBSD 3.3

3.3

FreeBSD 3.4

3.4

FreeBSD 3.5

3.5

FreeBSD 3.5.1

3.5.1

FreeBSD 4.0

4.0

FreeBSD 4.1

4.1

FreeBSD 4.1.1

4.1.1

FreeBSD 4.2

4.2

FreeBSD 4.3

4.3

FreeBSD 4.4

4.4

FreeBSD 4.5

4.5

FreeBSD 4.6

4.6

FreeBSD 4.6.2

4.6.2

FreeBSD 4.7

4.7

FreeBSD 4.8

4.8

FreeBSD 4.9

4.9

FreeBSD 4.10

4.10

FreeBSD 5.0

5.0

FreeBSD 5.1

5.1

FreeBSD 5.2

5.2

FreeBSD 5.3

5.3

Red Hat Desktop 3.0

3.0

Red Hat Desktop 4.0

4.0

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