https://github.com/gkaindl/meltdown-poc

A quick PoC to try out the "meltdown" timing attack.
https://github.com/gkaindl/meltdown-poc

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A quick PoC to try out the "meltdown" timing attack.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/gkaindl/meltdown-poc
• Owner: gkaindl
• Created: 2018-01-04T17:34:21.000Z (about 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-01-06T15:29:38.000Z (about 7 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-02T01:21:52.783Z (6 months ago)
• Language: C
• Size: 3.91 KB
• Stars: 154
• Watchers: 9
• Forks: 43
• Open Issues: 4
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  • Readme: README.md

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# POC for meltdown/spectre

I just wanted to see if this really works, and it actually does. Scary!

It reads out the `TEST_PHRASE` using the timing attack (in its own process).

**Note:** This will only work on Intel "Haswell" and later, since it uses

the TSX extensions to mitigate the processor trap.

Alternatively, by changing the macro `TEST_IN_OWN_PROCESS` to 0, you can

specify an address and length on the command line, and output raw data to pipe

into `strings`. In this case, it uses Intel's TSX to prevent crashing when

attempting to access the mem location, just like the meltdown paper says.

Tested on OS X 10.12.6

Update: OS X has a fix available now, so the PoC only works in its own process

memory anymore.