The SLAM attack exploits hardware features in upcoming CPUs from Intel, AMD, and Arm to obtain the root password hash from kernel memory, highlighting potential security vulnerabilities.
One of the vulnerabilities, known as “Reptar,” affects Intel CPUs and could lead to system instability or privilege escalation. The other vulnerability, CVE-2023-46835, could allow malicious code in a guest VM to compromise an AMD-based host.
What is multiprocessing? Multiprocessing is the utilization of two or more central processing units (CPUs) in a single computer system. Its definition can vary depending on the context, but generally it refers to a system’s ability to support multiple CPUs and its capacity to distribute work among them. Multicore processors today are easily capable of […]