Meltdown: Reading Kernel Memory from User Space ​

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Authors: Moritz Lipp, Michael Schwarz, Daniel Gruss, Thomas Prescher, Werner Haas, Anders Fogh, Jann Horn, et al.
Year: 2018
Journal: USENIX
DOI: 10.1109/SP.2018.00057
Publisher: https://meltdownattack.com/

Keywords: meltdown, security

Abstract ​

We present Meltdown a powerful attack that allows reading privileged memory of other processes.

Cite this paper ​

@misc{meltdown2018,
  title  = {Meltdown: Reading Kernel Memory from User Space},
  author = {Moritz Lipp, Michael Schwarz, Daniel Gruss, Thomas Prescher, Werner Haas, Anders Fogh, Jann Horn, et al.},
  year   = {2018},
  journal = {USENIX},
  doi    = {10.1109/SP.2018.00057},
  url    = {https://doi.org/10.1109/SP.2018.00057},
}

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