CVE-2023-20593 Affecting spectre-meltdown-checker package, versions <0.46-150100.3.9.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
5.88% (91st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES152-SPECTREMELTDOWNCHECKER-6447429
  • published16 Mar 2024
  • disclosed14 Mar 2024

Introduced: 14 Mar 2024

CVE-2023-20593  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.2 spectre-meltdown-checker to version 0.46-150100.3.9.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream spectre-meltdown-checker package and not the spectre-meltdown-checker package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.2 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue in “Zen 2” CPUs, under specific microarchitectural circumstances, may allow an attacker to potentially access sensitive information.

References

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1