CVE-2018-3646

NameCVE-2018-3646
DescriptionSystems 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 with guest OS privilege via a terminal page fault and a side-channel analysis.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-1481-1, DSA-4274-1, DSA-4279-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
intel-microcode (PTS)buster/non-free3.20220510.1~deb10u1fixed
buster/non-free (security)3.20231114.1~deb10u1fixed
bullseye/non-free, bullseye/non-free (security)3.20231114.1~deb11u1fixed
bookworm/non-free-firmware (security), bookworm/non-free-firmware3.20231114.1~deb12u1fixed
sid/non-free-firmware, trixie/non-free-firmware3.20240312.1fixed
linux (PTS)buster4.19.249-2fixed
buster (security)4.19.304-1fixed
bullseye5.10.209-2fixed
bullseye (security)5.10.205-2fixed
bookworm6.1.76-1fixed
bookworm (security)6.1.69-1fixed
trixie6.6.15-2fixed
sid6.7.9-2fixed
xen (PTS)buster, buster (security)4.11.4+107-gef32c7afa2-1fixed
bullseye4.14.6-1fixed
bullseye (security)4.14.5+94-ge49571868d-1fixed
bookworm4.17.3+10-g091466ba55-1~deb12u1fixed
trixie4.17.3+10-g091466ba55-1fixed
sid4.17.3+36-g54dacb5c02-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
intel-microcodesource(unstable)3.20180703.1
linuxsourcestretch4.9.110-3+deb9u3DSA-4279-1
linuxsource(unstable)4.17.15-1
linux-4.9sourcejessie4.9.110-3+deb9u4~deb8u1DLA-1481-1
xensourcestretch4.8.4+xsa273+shim4.10.1+xsa273-1+deb9u10DSA-4274-1
xensource(unstable)4.11.1~pre.20180911.5acdd26fdc+dfsg-2

Notes

[jessie] - linux <ignored> (Too invasive and risky to apply)
[jessie] - xen <ignored> (Depends on fix for CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5754)
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
Updates were already shipped with 20180703 release, but only disclosed later, see #906158
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

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