Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.artful:def:20183640000
Revision Date:2018-05-22Version:1
Title:CVE-2018-3640 on Ubuntu 17.10 (artful) - medium.
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.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2018-3640
Platform(s):Ubuntu 17.10
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 17.10 (artful) is installed.
  • AND The 'intel-microcode' package in artful is affected and needs fixing.
  • BACK