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F5 Networks: CVE-2018-3640: K51801290: RSRE Variant 3a vulnerability CVE-2018-3640

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F5 Networks: CVE-2018-3640: K51801290: RSRE Variant 3a vulnerability CVE-2018-3640

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
05/22/2018
Created
08/27/2024
Added
08/23/2024
Modified
08/23/2024

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)

  • f5-big-ip-upgrade-latest

References

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