#GrazUniversity: « #SpeculativeDereferencing of Registers: Reviving #Foreshadow »
« we show that the attribution to a prefetching mechanism is fundamentally incorrect in all previous papers describing or exploiting this effect […] leading to incorrect conclusions and ineffectiveness of proposed defenses. The effect exploited in all of these papers is, in fact, caused by speculative dereferencing of user-space registers in the #kernel. »
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2008.02307.pdf
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