Pacman attack on M1 chip
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Bill Frantz
Jun 16, 2022, 10:59:18 PM6/16/22
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From SANS NewsBites Vol. 24 Num. 47
<https://pacmanattack.com/>
This attack bypasses Pointer Authentication on the Apple M1 chip. It’s kind of fun in that it avoids crashes during the attack by running the attack in speculative execution and testing for success by looking at the TLB. They say they can use any side-channel, but they picked the TLB.
Cheers - Bill
<https://pacmanattack.com/>
This attack bypasses Pointer Authentication on the Apple M1 chip. It’s kind of fun in that it avoids crashes during the attack by running the attack in speculative execution and testing for success by looking at the TLB. They say they can use any side-channel, but they picked the TLB.
Cheers - Bill
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