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title: Critical Flaw Found in Intel Chip
description: Researchers have discovered a vulnerability that would allow hackers to install malware.
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# [Critical Flaw Found in Intel Chip](https://www.secureworld.io/industry-news/critical-flaw-found-in-intel-chip)

 Written by [SecureWorld News Team](https://www.secureworld.io/industry-news/author/secureworld-news-team) | Thu | Oct 20, 2016 | 4:30 PM Z

Researchers have discovered a vulnerability that would allow hackers to install malware.

[Infosecurity Magazine Explains:](http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/researchers-find-dangerous-intel/)

Researchers are claiming to have found a way to bypass a widely used defence against attempts to install malware by exploiting operating system or application vulnerabilities.

Address space layout randomization (ASLR) works to defend against a range of attacks by randomizing the locations of code in computer memory.

Now, in[ their paper](http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~nael/pubs/micro16.pdf), *Jump Over ASLR: Attacking Branch Predictors to Bypass ASLR*, researchers at the State University of New York and University of California describe a newly discovered flaw in Intel chips which allows them to bypass ASLR.

The researchers were able to launch a so-called 'side channel' attack on a Haswell chip’s branch target buffer (BTB), which resides in the branch predictor part of the CPU.

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