Security Bulletin
Summary
Speculative execution is a technique used by many modern processors to improve performance by predicting which instructions may be executed based on past execution history. An attacker with local user access may be able to utilize sequences of speculative execution to perform a cache timing side-channel analysis.
Vulnerability Details
Description: Multiple Intel CPU's could allow a local attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by utilizing sequences of speculative execution and speculative execution of memory reads before the addresses of all prior memory writes are known. By conducting targeted cache side-channel attacks, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass security restrictions and gain read access to privileged memory. Note: This vulnerability is the Speculative Store Bypass (SSB), also known as Variant 4 or "SpectreNG".
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: For the current score, see: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/143569
CVSS Environmental Score: *Undefined
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVEID: CVE-2018-3640
Description: Multiple Intel CPU's could allow a local attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by utilizing sequences of speculative execution that perform speculative reads of system registers. By conducting targeted cache side-channel attacks, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to determine the values stored in system registers. Note: This vulnerability is the Rogue System Register Read (RSRE), also known as Variant 3a.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: For the current score, see: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/143570
CVSS Environmental Score: *Undefined
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
Affected Products and Versions
- IBM QRadar SIEM 7.2.0 to 7.2.8 Patch 14
- IBM QRadar SIEM 7.3.0 to 7.3.1 Patch 6
Remediation/Fixes
Workarounds and Mitigations
For Lenovo Appliance M5 Firmware installs using ISO/IMM, see:
Lenovo x3550 M5 and Lenovo x3650 M5
For Lenovo M4 Appliance Firmware installs using USB keys, see:
- 1U USB: Qradar_1U_M4_MT7914_Qflow_15xxEC_2100_Firmware_Update_5.2.0
- 2U USB: Qradar_2U_M4_MT5466_xx05_xx28_QIF_PCAP_Firmware_Update_5.2.0
For Lenovo M4 Appliance Firmware installs using ISO/IMM, see:
- 1U ISO: Qradar_ISO_1U_M4_MT7914_Qflow_15xxEC_2100_Firmware_Update_5.2.0
- 2U ISO: Qradar_ISO_2U_M4_MT5466_xx05_xx28_QIF_PCAP_Firmware_Update_5.2.0
For Lenovo Appliance M3 Firmware installs using USB keys, see:
For Dell Appliances please get the latest BIOS for your server from
https://support.dell.com
.
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References
Change History
January 22, 2018: First Publish
*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.
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Document Location
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Document Information
Modified date:
24 January 2019
UID
ibm10796076