Improper Access Control Applied to Mirrored or Aliased Memory Regions

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Improper Access Control Applied to Mirrored or Aliased Memory Regions
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Aliased or mirrored memory regions in hardware designs may have inconsistent read/write permissions enforced by the hardware. A possible result is that an untrusted agent is blocked from accessing a memory region but is not blocked from accessing the corresponding aliased memory region.

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