ASA-2019-00333 – Intel: Partial Physical Address Leakage


Allele Security Alert

ASA-2019-00333

Identifier(s)

ASA-2019-00333, CVE-2019-0174, INTEL-SA-00247

Title

Partial Physical Address Leakage

Vendor(s)

Intel

Product(s)

Intel® Core™
Intel® Pentium®
Intel® Celeron®
Intel® Xeon®

Affected version(s)

Intel® Core™ X-series Processors, 4th Generation
Intel® Core™ i5 Processors, 4th Generation
Intel® Core™ i3 Processors
Intel® Pentium® Processor G Series,
Intel® Pentium® Processor 3000 Series
Intel® Celeron® Processor 2000 Series
Intel® Xeon® Processor E7 v3 Family
Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 v3 Family
Intel® Xeon® Processor E3 v3 Family

Fixed version(s)

Unknown

Proof of concept

Unknown

Description

Logic condition in specific microprocessors may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable partial physical address information disclosure via local access.

Technical details

Unknown

Credits

Andrew Kwong, Daniel Genkin (University of Michigan), Daniel Gruss (Graz University of Technology), Yuval Yarom (University of Adelaide) and Data61

Reference(s)

Partial Physical Address Leakage Advisory
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00247.html

RAMBleed: Reading Bits in Memory Without Accessing Them
https://rambleed.com/docs/20190603-rambleed-web.pdf

RAMBleed
https://rambleed.com

Security Best Practices For Side Channel Resistance:
https://software.intel.com/security-software-guidance/insights/security-best-practices-side-channel-resistance

Guidelines For Mitigating Timing Side Channels Against Cryptographic Implementations:
https://software.intel.com/security-software-guidance/insights/guidelines-mitigating-timing-side-channels-against-cryptographic-implementations

CVE-2019-0174
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-0174

CVE-2019-0174
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-0174

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Last modified: June 11, 2019

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