CVE-2023-1637

Public on 2023-03-27
Modified on 2024-03-01
Description
A flaw that boot CPU could be vulnerable for the speculative execution behavior kind of attacks in the Linux kernel X86 CPU Power management options functionality was found in the way user resuming CPU from suspend-to-RAM. A local user could use this flaw to potentially get unauthorized access to some memory of the CPU similar to the speculative execution behavior kind of attacks.
Severity
Medium severity
Medium
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.5
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 kernel 2022-05-31 ALAS-2022-1591 Fixed
Amazon Linux 2 - Kernel-5.4 Extra kernel Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2 - Core kernel 2022-05-04 ALAS2-2022-1793 Fixed
Amazon Linux 2 - Core kernel 2024-06-06 ALAS2-2024-2569 Fixed
Amazon Linux 2 - Kernel-5.10 Extra kernel 2023-06-29 ALAS2KERNEL-5.10-2023-036 Fixed
Amazon Linux 2 - Kernel-5.15 Extra kernel 2023-06-29 ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2023-023 Fixed
Amazon Linux 2023 kernel 2023-02-17 ALAS2023-2023-070 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N