Covert Timing Channel The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-headers  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-KERNELHEADERS-4906366
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed12 Nov 2019

Introduced: 12 Nov 2019

CVE-2019-11135  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-385  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:7.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-headers package and not the kernel-headers package as distributed by RHEL.

TSX Asynchronous Abort condition on some CPUs utilizing speculative execution may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable information disclosure via a side channel with local access.

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