CVE-2018-12127 Information disclosure in Central Processing Units (CPUs)

What is CVE-2018-12127?

CVE-2018-12127 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 30 May 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Microarchitectural Load Port Data Sampling (MLPDS): Load ports on some microprocessors utilizing speculative execution may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable information disclosure via a side channel with local access. A list of impacted products can be found here: https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/corporate-information/SA00233-microcode-update-guidance_05132019.pdf

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-12127?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Intel Microarchitectural Load Port Data Sampling Firmware.

How do I fix CVE-2018-12127?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2018-12127 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-12127 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2018-12127, DEBIAN-CVE-2018-12127, GHSA-9x4m-r2fg-43cj, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-12127.