CVE-2023-20592
Publication date 14 November 2023
Last updated 24 July 2024
Ubuntu priority
Improper or unexpected behavior of the INVD instruction in some AMD CPUs may allow an attacker with a malicious hypervisor to affect cache line write-back behavior of the CPU leading to a potential loss of guest virtual machine (VM) memory integrity.
Status
| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
| amd64-microcode | ||
| 22.04 LTS jammy |
Not affected
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| 20.04 LTS focal |
Not affected
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| 18.04 LTS bionic |
Not affected
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| 16.04 LTS xenial |
Not affected
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| 14.04 LTS trusty | Ignored end of ESM support, was ignored [no real-world users] |
Notes
alexmurray
The microcode revisions listed in the AMD advisory AMD-SB-3005 were contained in the upstream commit b250b32ab1d044953af2dc5e790819a7703b7ee6 - this was already provided to the various Ubuntu releases in USN-6319-1 for CVE-2023-20569, as such they are not affected by this CVE.
Severity score breakdown
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Base score |
6.5 · Medium
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| Attack vector | Network |
| Attack complexity | Low |
| Privileges required | Low |
| User interaction | None |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | None |
| Integrity impact | High |
| Availability impact | None |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |