CVE-2005-0109
Description
From CVE.org
Hyper-Threading technology, as used in FreeBSD and other operating systems that are run on Intel Pentium and other processors, allows local users to use a malicious thread to create covert channels, monitor the execution of other threads, and obtain sensitive information such as cryptographic keys, via a timing attack on memory cache misses.
Statement
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.
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