Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:20183640000
Revision Date:2018-05-22Version:1
Title:CVE-2018-3640 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - 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 16.04 LTS
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Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) is installed.
  • AND The 'intel-microcode' package in xenial was vulnerable but has been fixed (note: '3.20180807a.0ubuntu0.16.04.1').
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