Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by philsnow 3089 days ago
you're being downvoted but the first non-trivial program `./kaslr` fetches the physical map offset of the running kernel: https://github.com/IAIK/meltdown/#demo-2-breaking-kaslr-kasl...

Note they do say

> This demo uses Meltdown to leak the (secret) randomization of the direct physical map. This demo requires root privileges to speed up the process. The paper describes a variant which does not require root privileges.

but I don't know how much allowing it to sudo speeds up the process.