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Branch Privilege Injection: Exploiting branch predictor race conditions

Branch Privilege Injection ( CVE-2024-45332 ) brings back the full might of branch target injection attacks (Spectre-BTI) on Intel. Intel’s hardware mitigations against these types of attacks have held their ground for almost 6 years. In our work, we demonstrate how these mitigations can be broken due to a race…
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