SB2018071303 - Information disclosure in Intel CPU
Published: July 13, 2018
Security Bulletin ID
SB2018071303
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Local access
Highest impact
Information disclosure
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-3693)
The vulnerability allows a local attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists in the design of most modern CPUs using speculative execution and branch prediction due to improper speculative execution of instructions. A local attacker can bypass bounds checks, trigger buffer overflow, perform arbitrary speculative execution and a side-channel attack to access sensitive memory information.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.