Information Exposure Affecting ucode-intel package, versions <20180703-3.3.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.62% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-UCODEINTEL-2763312
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed11 Jul 2018

Introduced: 11 Jul 2018

CVE-2018-3640  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-203  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.0 ucode-intel to version 20180703-3.3.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ucode-intel package and not the ucode-intel package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.0 relevant fixed versions and status.

Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and that perform speculative reads of system registers may allow unauthorized disclosure of system parameters to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis, aka Rogue System Register Read (RSRE), Variant 3a.

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