Insufficient control flow management in the BIOS firmware for some Intel(R) Processors may allow a privileged user to potentially enable denial of service via local access.

Gather Date Sampling (GDS) is a transient execution side channel vulnerability affecting certain Intel processor. In this flaw, a local attack using gather instruction (load from memory) may infer stale data from previously used vector registers on the same physical core.

Time-of-check time-of-use race condition in the BIOS firmware for some Intel(R) Processors may allow a privileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.

Out-of-bounds write in the BIOS authenticated code module for some Intel(R) Processors may allow a privileged user to potentially enable aescalation of privilege via local access.

Improper access control in the BIOS authenticated code module for some Intel(R) Processors may allow a privileged user to potentially enable aescalation of privilege via local access.

Improper input validation in the BIOS firmware for some Intel(R) Processors may allow a privileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.

Insufficient control flow management in the BIOS firmware for some Intel(R) Processors may allow a privileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.

Unchecked return value in the firmware for some Intel(R) Processors may allow a privileged user to potentially enable an escalation of privilege via local access.

Insecure default variable initialization for the Intel BSSA DFT feature may allow a privileged user to potentially enable an escalation of privilege via local access.

Improper input validation in the firmware for some Intel(R) Processors may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via local access.

Out of bounds read in the firmware for some Intel(R) Processors may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.

Improper initialization in the firmware for some Intel(R) Processors may allow a privileged user to potentially enable a denial of service via local access.

Out of bounds write in the firmware for some Intel(R) Processors may allow a privileged user to potentially enable denial of service via local access.

Insufficient control flow management in the firmware for some Intel(R) Processors may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via physical access.

Improper input validation in the firmware for some Intel(R) Processors may allow a privileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.

Race condition in the firmware for some Intel(R) Processors may allow a privileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.

Improper initialization in the firmware for some Intel(R) Processors may allow a privileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.

Load value injection in some Intel(R) Processors utilizing speculative execution may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable information disclosure via a side channel with local access. The list of affected products is provided in intel-sa-00334: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00334.html

A flaw was found during cache eviction on some Intel processors which may allow a local attacker to infer cache contents and disclose information through this side-channel.

Reference: ---------- -> https://access.redhat.com/solutions/l1d-cache-eviction-and-vector-register-sampling

Additional information: ----------------------- -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vectorprocessor -> https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/introduction-to-intel-advanced-vector-extensions

A flaw was found in Intel processors where a local attacker is able to gain information about registers used for vector calculations by observing register states from other processes running on the system. This results in a race condition where store buffers, which were not cleared, could be read by another process or a CPU sibling. The highest threat from this vulnerability is data confidentiality where an attacker could read arbitrary data as it passes through the processor.

A flaw was found in the implementation of Intel Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX) abortion where a local authenticated attacker with the ability to monitor execution time is able to infer TSX memory state by comparing abort execution times.

This could allow information disclosure via this observed sidechannel for any TSX transaction being executed while an attacker is able to observe abort timing.

A flaw was found in computer hardware of the Intel microprocessors related to the instruction-side TLB (Translation Lookaside Buffer) that caches translations from guest (and host) virtual addresses into physical addresses.

This is a software fix that attempts to prevent exploitation of the hardware through preventing a hacker from creating an exploitable condition

Additional information:

https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/ifu-page-mce