ALAS2022-2022-129

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-21233  

A flaw was found in hw. The APIC can operate in xAPIC mode (also known as a legacy mode), in which APIC configuration registers are exposed through a memory-mapped I/O (MMIO) page. This flaw allows an attacker who can execute code on a target CPU to query the APIC configuration page. When reading the APIC configuration page with an unaligned read from the MMIO page, the registers may return stale data from previous requests made by the same processor core to the same configuration page, leading to unauthorized access. (CVE-2022-21233)

ALAS2022-2022-129


Amazon Linux 2022 Security Advisory: ALAS-2022-129
Advisory Release Date: 2022-08-29 21:21 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2022-08-30 22:33 Pacific
Severity: Medium
References: CVE-2022-21233 

Issue Overview:

A flaw was found in hw. The APIC can operate in xAPIC mode (also known as a legacy mode), in which APIC configuration registers are exposed through a memory-mapped I/O (MMIO) page. This flaw allows an attacker who can execute code on a target CPU to query the APIC configuration page. When reading the APIC configuration page with an unaligned read from the MMIO page, the registers may return stale data from previous requests made by the same processor core to the same configuration page, leading to unauthorized access. (CVE-2022-21233)


Affected Packages:

microcode_ctl


Issue Correction:
Run dnf update microcode_ctl --releasever=2022.0.20220831 to update your system.

New Packages:
i686:
    microcode_ctl-2.1-53.amzn2022.i686

src:
    microcode_ctl-2.1-53.amzn2022.src

x86_64:
    microcode_ctl-2.1-53.amzn2022.x86_64