---
id: 8705
title: "Reading privileged memory with a side-channel"
source_domain: projectzero.google
source_url: "https://projectzero.google/2018/01/reading-privileged-memory-with-side.html"
published_at: "2018-01-03T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["meltdown", "spectre", "side-channel", "speculative-execution", "cpu", "project-zero", "privileged-memory"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/8705"
lang: en
---

# Reading privileged memory with a side-channel

## Summary

Project Zero details how CPU data cache timing can be abused as a side channel to read privileged memory from speculative execution, the research behind the Spectre and Meltdown issues.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** projectzero.google
- **Published:** 2018-01-03T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://projectzero.google/2018/01/reading-privileged-memory-with-side.html
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/8705