| Name | CVE-2018-3640 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-1446-1, DSA-4273-1, DSA-4273-2 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| intel-microcode (PTS) | buster/non-free, buster/non-free (security) | 3.20220510.1~deb10u1 | fixed |
| bullseye/non-free, bullseye/non-free (security) | 3.20220510.1~deb11u1 | fixed | |
| sid/non-free-firmware, bookworm/non-free-firmware | 3.20230214.1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| intel-microcode | source | jessie | 3.20180703.2~deb8u1 | DLA-1446-1 | ||
| intel-microcode | source | stretch | 3.20180807a.1~deb9u1 | DSA-4273-2 | ||
| intel-microcode | source | (unstable) | 3.20180703.1 |
https://developer.arm.com/support/arm-security-updates/speculative-processor-vulnerability
No software mitigations planned to be implemented in src:linux
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00115.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