vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2018-3620: intel-microcode, linux, xen -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Aug 15, 2018
Added
Aug 17, 2018
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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 via a terminal page fault and a side-channel analysis.

Solutions

debian-upgrade-intel-microcodedebian-upgrade-linuxdebian-upgrade-xen
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