Bug 1617463 (CVE-2005-0109) - CVE-2005-0109 security flaw
Summary: CVE-2005-0109 security flaw
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: CVE-2005-0109
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2018-08-16 03:45 UTC by Stephen Herr
Modified: 2021-02-16 23:27 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-08-16 03:45:50 UTC
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Description Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 03:45:44 UTC 
Flaw bug created to hold information about an old flaw we knew something about. For more details see the MITRE CVE description.
Comment 1 Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 16:07:42 UTC 
MITRE description:

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.
Comment 2 Stephen Herr 2019-06-13 19:20:42 UTC 
Statement:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.
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