ALAS2-2023-2195

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-40982  

A Gather Data Sampling (GDS) transient execution side-channel vulnerability was found affecting certain Intel processors. This issue may allow a local attacker using gather instruction (load from memory) to infer stale data from previously used vector registers on the same physical core. (CVE-2022-40982)

ALAS2-2023-2195


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-2195
Advisory Release Date: 2023-08-03 18:10 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-08-08 22:07 Pacific
Severity: Medium

Issue Overview:

A Gather Data Sampling (GDS) transient execution side-channel vulnerability was found affecting certain Intel processors. This issue may allow a local attacker using gather instruction (load from memory) to infer stale data from previously used vector registers on the same physical core. (CVE-2022-40982)


Affected Packages:

microcode_ctl


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

New Packages:
i686:
    microcode_ctl-2.1-47.amzn2.1.15.i686
    microcode_ctl-debuginfo-2.1-47.amzn2.1.15.i686

src:
    microcode_ctl-2.1-47.amzn2.1.15.src

x86_64:
    microcode_ctl-2.1-47.amzn2.1.15.x86_64
    microcode_ctl-debuginfo-2.1-47.amzn2.1.15.x86_64