Meltdown Exploit Proof of Concept

Speculative optimizations execute code in a non-secure manner leaving data traces in microarchitecture such as cache. Refer to the paper by Lipp et. al 2017 for details: https://meltdownattack.com/meltdown.pdf. Can only dump linux_proc_banner at the moment, since requires accessed memory to be in cache and linux_proc_banner is cached on every read from /proc/version. Might work with […]