LiveOverflow | How The RIDL CPU Vulnerability Was Found @LiveOverflow | Uploaded 2 years ago | Updated 1 hour ago
In this video we explore the basic ideas behind CPU vulnerabilities and have a closer look at RIDL.
This video is sponsored by Intel and their Project Circuit Breaker: projectcircuitbreaker.com

How to Benchmark Code Execution Times: intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/white-papers/ia-32-ia-64-benchmark-code-execution-paper.pdf
Anders Fogh: https://cyber.wtf/2017/07/28/negative-result-reading-kernel-memory-from-user-mode/
Speculose: arxiv.org/abs/1801.04084
RIDL Paper: mdsattacks.com/files/ridl.pdf
Foreshadow PoC: github.com/gregvish/l1tf-poc/blob/master/doit.c
Sebastian Österlund: https://osterlund.xyz/

Chapters:
00:00 - Intro & Motivation
00:57 - Concept #1: CPU Caches
01:57 - Measure Cache Access Time with rdtscp
05:00 - Concept #2: Out-of-order Execution
06:11 - CPU Pipelining
07:13 - Out-of-order Execution Example
09:19 - CPU Caching + Out-of-order Execution = Attack Idea!!
10:33 - Negative Result: Reading Kernel Memory From User Mode
13:45 - Pandoras Box
14:23 - Interview with Sebastian Österlund
17:24 - Accidental RIDL Discovery
19:31 - NULL Pointer Bug
21:50 - Investigating Root Cause
23:28 - Conclusion
24:24 - Outro

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