| Name | CVE-2018-3620 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-1481-1, DLA-1529-1, DSA-4274-1, DSA-4279-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| intel-microcode (PTS) | bullseye/non-free | 3.20240813.1~deb11u1 | fixed |
| bullseye/non-free (security) | 3.20250512.1~deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm/non-free-firmware | 3.20250211.1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| bookworm/non-free-firmware (security) | 3.20250512.1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| trixie/non-free-firmware, sid/non-free-firmware | 3.20250512.1 | fixed |
| linux (PTS) | bullseye | 5.10.223-1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 5.10.237-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 6.1.137-1 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 6.1.140-1 | fixed |
| trixie | 6.12.35-1 | fixed |
| trixie (security) | 6.12.31-1 | fixed |
| sid | 6.12.37-1 | fixed |
| xen (PTS) | bullseye | 4.14.6-1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 4.14.5+94-ge49571868d-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 4.17.5+23-ga4e5191dc0-1+deb12u1 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 4.17.5+23-ga4e5191dc0-1 | fixed |
| trixie, sid | 4.20.0+68-g35cb38b222-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[jessie] - xen <ignored> (Depends on fix for CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5754)
Updates were already shipped with 20180703 release, but only disclosed later, see #906158
https://software.intel.com/security-software-guidance/software-guidance/l1-terminal-fault
https://foreshadowattack.eu/
https://git.kernel.org/linus/958f338e96f874a0d29442396d6adf9c1e17aa2d
https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-273.html
The 3.20180703.1 release for intel-microcode was the first batch of updates which targeted
most server type CPUs, additional models were supported in the 3.20180807a.1 release