The Linux Virtual Memory System: Other Security Problems
Understand the security vulnerabilities of the Linux virtual memory system, focusing on how Meltdown and Spectre attacks exploit speculative execution in CPUs. Learn about kernel page-table isolation as a mitigation and the trade-offs between security and performance in modern operating systems.
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As we write these words (August, 2018), the world of systems security has been turned upside down by two new and related attacks. The first is called ...