FreeBSD Information for VU#911878

Simultaneous multithreading processors may leak information through cache eviction analysis techniques

Status

Affected

Vendor Statement

No statement is currently available from the vendor regarding this vulnerability.

Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

Vendor References

None

Addendum

FreeBSD has released a security advisory FreeBSD-SA-05:09.htt available from:

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:09.htt.asc

FreeBSD has also released patches to disable HTT support.

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