ALAS2-2023-2056

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-21216   CVE-2022-33972   CVE-2022-38090  

Insufficient granularity of access control in out-of-band management in some Intel(R) Atom and Intel Xeon Scalable Processors may allow a privileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via adjacent network access. (CVE-2022-21216) Incorrect calculation in microcode keying mechanism for some 3rd Generation Intel(R) Xeon(R) Scalable Processors may allow a privileged user to potentially enable information disclosure via local access. (CVE-2022-33972) Improper isolation of shared resources in some Intel(R) Processors when using Intel(R) Software Guard Extensions may allow a privileged user to potentially enable information disclosure via local access. (CVE-2022-38090)

ALAS2-2023-2056


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-2056
Advisory Release Date: 2023-05-25 17:41 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-06-01 23:37 Pacific
Severity: Medium

Issue Overview:

Insufficient granularity of access control in out-of-band management in some Intel(R) Atom and Intel Xeon Scalable Processors may allow a privileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via adjacent network access. (CVE-2022-21216)

Incorrect calculation in microcode keying mechanism for some 3rd Generation Intel(R) Xeon(R) Scalable Processors may allow a privileged user to potentially enable information disclosure via local access. (CVE-2022-33972)

Improper isolation of shared resources in some Intel(R) Processors when using Intel(R) Software Guard Extensions may allow a privileged user to potentially enable information disclosure via local access. (CVE-2022-38090)


Affected Packages:

microcode_ctl


Issue Correction:
Run yum update microcode_ctl to update your system.

New Packages:
i686:
    microcode_ctl-2.1-47.amzn2.0.15.i686
    microcode_ctl-debuginfo-2.1-47.amzn2.0.15.i686

src:
    microcode_ctl-2.1-47.amzn2.0.15.src

x86_64:
    microcode_ctl-2.1-47.amzn2.0.15.x86_64
    microcode_ctl-debuginfo-2.1-47.amzn2.0.15.x86_64