CVE-2023-1637

kernel: save/restore speculative MSRs during S3 suspend/resume

Published Mar 27, 2023 CVSS 3.1 · 5.5 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
A flaw that boot CPU could be vulnerable for the speculative execution behavior kind of attacks in the Linux kernel X86 CPU Power management options functionality was found in the way user resuming CPU from suspend-to-RAM. A local user could use this flaw to potentially get unauthorized access to some memory of the CPU similar to the speculative execution behavior kind of attacks.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

Sign in to view the affected projects.

Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2023-23866 A flaw that boot CPU could be vulnerable for the speculative execution behavior kind of attacks in the Linux kernel X86 CPU Power management options functionality was found in the way user resuming CPU from suspend-to-RAM. A local user could use this flaw to potentially get unauthorized access to some memory of the CPU similar to the speculative execution behavior kind of attacks.
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
redhat
Published
Updated
Feb 19, 2025, 9:06 PM
Reserved
Mar 26, 2023, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Mar 27, 2023, 10:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 5:28 AM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Apr 5, 2022, 12:00 AM