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Ubuntu: USN-5886-1 (CVE-2022-21216): Intel Microcode vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-5886-1 (CVE-2022-21216): Intel Microcode vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/16/2023
Created
03/29/2023
Added
03/22/2023
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

Insufficient granularity of access control in out-of-band management in some Intel(R) Atom and Intel Xeon Scalable Processors may allow a privileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via adjacent network access.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-intel-microcode

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