ALAS-2023-1715


Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-1715
Advisory Release Date: 2023-03-30 22:50 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2024-02-14 20:03 Pacific
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

2024-02-14: CVE-2022-38090 was added to this advisory.

2024-02-01: CVE-2022-21216 was added to this advisory.

Insufficient granularity of access control in out-of-band management in some Intel(R) Atom and Intel Xeon Scalable Processors may allow a privileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via adjacent network access. (CVE-2022-21216)

Incorrect default permissions in some memory controller configurations for some Intel(R) Xeon(R) Processors when using Intel(R) Software Guard Extensions which may allow a privileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access. (CVE-2022-33196)

Improper isolation of shared resources in some Intel(R) Processors when using Intel(R) Software Guard Extensions may allow a privileged user to potentially enable information disclosure via local access. (CVE-2022-38090)


Affected Packages:

microcode_ctl


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

New Packages:
i686:
    microcode_ctl-debuginfo-2.1-47.41.amzn1.i686
    microcode_ctl-2.1-47.41.amzn1.i686

src:
    microcode_ctl-2.1-47.41.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    microcode_ctl-debuginfo-2.1-47.41.amzn1.x86_64
    microcode_ctl-2.1-47.41.amzn1.x86_64