Simultaneous Multi-threading (SMT) in processors can enable local users to exploit software vulnerable to timing attacks via a side-channel timing attack on 'port contention'.

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

🎯 Affected products8

• azl3 shim-unsigned-aarch64 16.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
• azl3 shim-unsigned-aarch64 16.1-2 on Azure Linux 3.0
• azl3 shim-unsigned-x64 16.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
• azl3 shim-unsigned-x64 16.1-2 on Azure Linux 3.0
• cbl2 shim-unsigned-aarch64 15-5
• cbl2 shim-unsigned-aarch64 15-5 on CBL Mariner 2.0
• cbl2 shim-unsigned-x64 15.8-1
• cbl2 shim-unsigned-x64 15.8-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0

🔗 References (1)

• advisoryhttps://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2018-5407