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CVE-2018-3640

Publication date 21 May 2018

Last updated 24 July 2024


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.6 · Medium

Score breakdown

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
intel-microcode 18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 3.20180807a.0ubuntu0.18.04.1
17.10 artful Ignored end of life
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 3.20180807a.0ubuntu0.16.04.1
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 3.20180807a.0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Notes


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V3a - Rogue Register Load Will be entirely addressed by microcode updates. No kernel changes are needed.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.6 · Medium
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity High
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Changed
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact None
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-3756-1
    • Intel Microcode vulnerabilities
    • 27 August 2018

Other references