ALAS-2022-1606


Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2022-1606
Advisory Release Date: 2022-06-30 23:38 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2024-05-09 17:43 Pacific
Severity: Medium

Issue Overview:

2024-05-09: CVE-2021-33117 was added to this advisory.

Improper access control for some 3rd Generation Intel(R) Xeon(R) Scalable Processors before BIOS version MR7, may allow a local attacker to potentially enable information disclosure via local access. (CVE-2021-33117)

A flaw was found in hw. Processor optimization removal or modification of security-critical code for some Intel(R) processors may potentially allow an authenticated user to enable information disclosure via local access. (CVE-2022-21151)

A flaw was found in hw. Incomplete cleanup in specific special register write operations for some Intel® Processors may allow an authenticated user to enable information disclosure via local access. (CVE-2022-21166)


Affected Packages:

microcode_ctl


Issue Correction:
Run yum update microcode_ctl to update your system.

New Packages:
i686:
    microcode_ctl-2.1-47.40.amzn1.i686
    microcode_ctl-debuginfo-2.1-47.40.amzn1.i686

src:
    microcode_ctl-2.1-47.40.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    microcode_ctl-2.1-47.40.amzn1.x86_64
    microcode_ctl-debuginfo-2.1-47.40.amzn1.x86_64