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SUSE: CVE-2017-5754: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2017-5754: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
01/03/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/04/2018
Modified
02/04/2022

Description

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

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default-extra
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-docs
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-obs-build
  • suse-upgrade-webkit2gtk3-devel
  • suse-upgrade-xen-devel

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