CVE-2018-3620 kernel: L1 Terminal Fault: OS/SMM

CVE ID

CVE-2018-3620

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.

7.1 High CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N




 

RESOLUTION

Resolution:
  Fixed with kernel-2.6.32-754.3.5.el6.x86_64.rpm and microcode_ctl-1.17-33.3.el6_10.x86_64.rpm in Unitrends security update (>=08/16/2018)

LINK TO ADVISORIES

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-3620 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-3620 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2390 https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00161.html