vulnerability

Amazon Linux 2023: CVE-2022-21216: Medium priority package update for microcode_ctl

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:P/A:P)
Published
Feb 16, 2023
Added
Feb 17, 2025
Modified
Jul 7, 2025

Description

Insufficient granularity of access control in out-of-band management in some Intel(R) Atom and Intel Xeon Scalable Processors may allow a privileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via adjacent network access.
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. A potential security vulnerability in some Intel(R) Atom(R) and Intel(R) Xeon(R) Scalable Processors may allow privilege escalation. This flaw may allow a privileged user to enable privilege escalation via adjacent network access.

Solution

amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-microcode-ctl
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