isec-tugraz/meltdown

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A collection of proof-of-concept applications demonstrating the Meltdown CPU vulnerability, built on the libkdump library. It includes demos for reading memory, breaking KASLR, and leaking kernel/physical memory on vulnerable Intel processors.

Use cases

• demonstrate the Meltdown side-channel attack on an Intel CPU
• test whether a system is vulnerable to Meltdown
• break KASLR to locate the kernel in memory
• dump physical memory including kernel memory
• learn how microarchitectural side-channel attacks work
• reproduce results from the Meltdown research paper

When to choose

• you are researching or teaching CPU side-channel attacks
• you need a reference PoC for the Meltdown vulnerability on Linux
• you want to verify mitigations against Meltdown on Intel hardware

When to avoid

• you need a production security tool or scanner
• your CPU is AMD or pre-2010 Intel (attack likely does not work)
• you want a maintained tool with ongoing updates
• you are on Windows or macOS (demos target Linux)

Facets

application · maturity maintenance

security developer-tools security operating-systems hardware cpp meltdown side-channel proof-of-concept exploit cpu-vulnerability microarchitectural-attacks linux

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