PT-2018-2590 · Arm+5 · Arm+5
Published
2018-05-21
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Updated
2024-06-15
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CVE-2018-3640
CVSS v3.1
5.6
Medium
| Vector | AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N |
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
Microprocessors (affected versions not specified)
Description
The issue concerns systems with microprocessors that use speculative execution and perform speculative reads of system registers, potentially allowing unauthorized disclosure of system parameters to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis. This is related to the use of speculative reading of system registers in Intel and ARM processors. An attacker could exploit this issue using a specially crafted application to reveal system parameters.
Recommendations
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
Exploit
Information Disclosure
Side Channel Attack
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Affected Products
Alt Linux
Arm
Huawei Vrp
Intel
Suse
Ubuntu