vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-3640): Intel Microcode vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
May 22, 2018
Added
Sep 11, 2018
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and that perform speculative reads of system registers may allow unauthorized disclosure of system parameters to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis, aka Rogue System Register Read (RSRE), Variant 3a.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-intel-microcode

References

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