A new speculative execution attack named "TIKTAG" targets ARM's Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) to leak data with over a 95% chance of success, allowing hackers to bypass the security feature.
Yeah, looks like it’s just bypassing a security feature that doesn’t exist anyway on most phones. So yeah, low priority sounds exactly right. I have that feature enabled on my phone, so I’m interested in seeing it get fixed though.
It’s considered low priority, so Google has a bug bounty for anyone that wants to fix it for Android.
Yeah, looks like it’s just bypassing a security feature that doesn’t exist anyway on most phones. So yeah, low priority sounds exactly right. I have that feature enabled on my phone, so I’m interested in seeing it get fixed though.