CVE-2020-0549

Public on 2020-01-28
Modified on 2020-07-15
Description

A microarchitectural timing flaw was found on some Intel processors. A corner case exists where data in-flight during the eviction process can end up in the "fill buffers" and not properly cleared by the MDS mitigations. The fill buffer contents (which were expected to be blank) can be inferred using MDS or TAA style attack methods to allow a local attacker to infer fill buffer values.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
6.5
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 microcode_ctl 2020-07-14 01:55 ALAS-2020-1396
Amazon Linux 2 - Core microcode_ctl 2020-06-26 22:53 ALAS2-2020-1444

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N