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OS X update for Hypervisor (CVE-2018-3646)

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OS X update for Hypervisor (CVE-2018-3646)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
08/14/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
10/31/2018
Modified
03/04/2020

Description

Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and address translations may allow unauthorized disclosure of information residing in the L1 data cache to an attacker with local user access with guest OS privilege via a terminal page fault and a side-channel analysis.

Solution(s)

  • apple-osx-security-update-2018-002-high-sierra

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