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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-KERNELHEADERS-4251694
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed20 Nov 2020
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Introduced: 20 Nov 2020

CVE-2020-4788  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

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.

IBM Power9 (AIX 7.1, 7.2, and VIOS 3.1) processors could allow a local user to obtain sensitive information from the data in the L1 cache under extenuating circumstances. IBM X-Force ID: 189296.

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