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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-3639: Observable Discrepancy

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-3639: Observable Discrepancy

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
05/22/2018
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
10/10/2024

Description

Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and speculative execution of memory reads before the addresses of all prior memory writes are known may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis, aka Speculative Store Bypass (SSB), Variant 4.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-xen
  • alpine-linux-upgrade-openjdk8

References

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