The Memory of a Meltdown

Shane Cota • Chris Magistrado - The Memory of a Meltdown, and No We Don't Mean Britney Software bugs can be patched as soon as the vendor pushes an update and the user updates their system. Hardware bugs are a bit more difficult to patch. Within the...

Shane Cota • Chris Magistrado - The Memory of a Meltdown, and No We Don't Mean Britney

Software bugs can be patched as soon as the vendor pushes an update and the user updates their system. Hardware bugs are a bit more difficult to patch. Within the past few months, Spectre and Meltdown have provided hackers the ability to access memory outside the scope of their permissions. We will be getting our hands dirty with memory to demonstrate how both these vulnerabilities work and how we use a PoC to exploit these vulnerabilities.