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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-5753: Observable Discrepancy

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jan 4, 2018
Added
Feb 21, 2018
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and branch prediction may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis.

Solutions

alpine-linux-upgrade-intel-ucodealpine-linux-upgrade-xen
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