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Cisco XE: CVE-2018-3640: CPU Side-Channel Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities: May 2018

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Cisco XE: CVE-2018-3640: CPU Side-Channel Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities: May 2018

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
05/22/2018
Created
08/02/2019
Added
07/30/2019
Modified
01/31/2023

Description

Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and that perform speculative reads of system registers may allow unauthorized disclosure of system parameters to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis, aka Rogue System Register Read (RSRE), Variant 3a.

Solution(s)

  • cisco-xe-upgrade-latest

References

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