PortSmash is a microarchitectural timing side-channel vulnerability in processors implementing simultaneous multithreading (SMT), including Hyper-Threading. Shared execution-engine resources permit a malicious process co-located on a sibling logical processor of the victim’s physical core to measure execution-port contention. Applications whose secret-dependent control flow produces distinguishable port use can leak secret-dependent execution behavior. OpenSSL elliptic-curve signing implementations using non-constant-time scalar-multiplication behavior were an affected example; observations can reveal information about nonce processing and may support cryptographic key recovery.
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The PortSmash OpenSSL side-channel vulnerability affecting SMT/Hyper-Threading architectures.
An OpenSSL side-channel vulnerability on SMT/Hyper-Threading architectures, also known as PortSmash.
PortSmash is an OpenSSL side-channel vulnerability on SMT/Hyper-Threading architectures.
A side-channel vulnerability in OpenSSL affecting SMT/Hyper-Threading architectures, known as PortSmash.
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Cross-references every affected SKU, including bundled OEM variants.
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