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Q3 2018 Speculative Execution Side Channel Update
| Intel ID: |
INTEL-SA-00161 |
|---|---|
| Product family: |
Multiple |
| Impact of vulnerability: |
Information Disclosure |
| Severity rating: |
See Security Advisory text |
| Original release: |
08/14/2018 |
| Last revised: |
05/11/2021 |
Summary:
Security researchers have identified a speculative execution side-channel method called L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF). This method impacts select microprocessor products supporting Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX). Further investigation by Intel has identified two related applications of L1TF with the potential to impact additional microprocessors, operating systems, system management mode, and virtualization software. If used for malicious purposes, this class of vulnerability has the potential to improperly infer data values from multiple types of computing devices.
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Description:
CVE-2018-3615 - L1 Terminal Fault: SGX
- Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and Intel® software guard extensions (Intel® SGX) may allow unauthorized disclosure of information residing in the L1 data cache from an enclave to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis.
- 7.3 High CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
CVE-2018-3620 - L1 Terminal Fault: OS/SMM
- Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and address translations may allow unauthorized disclosure of information residing in the L1 data cache to an attacker with local user access via a terminal page fault and a side-channel analysis.
- 6.5 Medium CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVE-2018-3646 - L1 Terminal Fault: VMM
- Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and address translations may allow unauthorized disclosure of information residing in the L1 data cache to an attacker with local user access with guest OS privilege via a terminal page fault and a side-channel analysis.
- 6.5 Medium CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Affected products:
A list of impacted products can be found here.
Affected by CVE-2018-3615 - L1 Terminal Fault: SGX are the following
6th generation Intel® Core™ processors
7th generation Intel® Core™ processors
8th generation Intel® Core™ processors
Intel® Xeon® Processor E3 v5 Family
Intel® Xeon® Processor E3 v6 Family
Please check with your system manufacturer for more information regarding updates for your system.
Recommendations:
Intel has worked with operating system vendors, equipment manufacturers, and other ecosystem partners to develop platform firmware and software updates that can help protect systems from these methods.
This includes the release of updated Intel microprocessor microcode to our customers and partners. This microcode was previously released as part of INTEL-SA-00115.
Status of available microcode can be found here.
End users and systems administrators should check with their system manufacturers and system software vendors and apply any available updates as soon as practical.
Additional Advisory Guidance on CVE-2018-3615, CVE-2018-3620, CVE-2018-3646 available here.
Acknowledgements:
Intel would like to thank Raoul Strackx1,Jo Van Bulck1, Marina Minkin2, Ofir Weisse3, Daniel Genkin3, Baris Kasikci3, Frank Piessens1, Mark Silberstein2, Thomas F. Wenisch3, and Yuval Yarom4 for reporting this issue and working with us on coordinated disclosure of CVE-2018-3615 (www.foreshadowattack.com)
1imec-DistriNet, KU Leuven, 2Technion, 3University of Michigan, 4University of Adelaide and Data61
Intel would like to thank employees Rodrigo Branco, Henrique Kawakami, Ke Sun, and Kekai Hu for discovery of CVE-2018-3615, CVE-2018-3620 and CVE-2018-3646.
Intel would like to acknowledge Lei Shi, Qihoo360 CERT for his independent work on CVE-2018-3620.
CVE Name: CVE-2018-3615, CVE-2018-3620, CVE-2018-3646
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