SB2019120517 - Intel MCE vulnerability in F5 Networks products
Published: December 5, 2019
Security Bulletin ID
SB2019120517
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Adjecent network
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-12207)
The vulnerability allows a local user to perform denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in the mechanism responsible for error handling on some Intel platforms. A local user of a guest operating system can use a specially crafted application to trigger memory corruption and cause the host system to stop responding.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Below is the list of processor families that are affected by this vulnerability:
Client:
- Intel Core i3 Processors
- Intel Core i5 Processors
- Intel Core i7 Processors
- Intel Core m Processor Family
- 2nd generation Intel Core Processors
- 3rd generation Intel Core Processors
- 4th generation Intel Core Processors
- 5th generation Intel Core Processors
- 6th generation Intel Core Processors
- 7th generation Intel Core Processors
- 8th generation Intel Core Processors
- Intel Core X-series Processor Family
- Intel Pentium Gold Processor Series
- Intel Celeron Processor G Series
Server:
- 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors
- Intel Xeon Scalable Processors
- Intel Xeon Processor E7 v4 Family
- Intel Xeon Processor E7 v3 Family
- Intel Xeon Processor E7 v2 Family
- Intel Xeon Processor E7 Family
- Intel Xeon Processor E5 v4 Family
- Intel Xeon Processor E5 v3 Family
- Intel Xeon Processor E5 v2 Family
- Intel Xeon Processor E5 Family
- Intel Xeon Processor E3 v6 Family
- Intel Xeon Processor E3 v5 Family
- Intel Xeon Processor E3 v4 Family
- Intel Xeon Processor E3 v3 Family
- Intel Xeon Processor E3 v2 Family
- Intel Xeon Processor E3 Family
- Intel Xeon E Processor
- Intel Xeon D Processor
- Intel Xeon W Processor
- Legacy Intel Xeon Processor
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.