CVE-2022-40982

Description

Information exposure through microarchitectural state after transient execution in certain vector execution units for some Intel(R) Processors may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable information disclosure via local access.

How to fix CVE-2022-40982

To remediate CVE-2022-40982, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

• Alpine/intel-ucode—upgrade to 20230808-r0 or later
• —upgrade to 4.15.5-r0 or later
• —upgrade to 3.20230808.1~deb10u1 or later
• —upgrade to 3.20230808.1~deb11u1 or later
• —upgrade to 3.20230808.1~deb11u1 or later
• —upgrade to 4.19.289-2 or later
• —upgrade to 5.10.179-5 or later
• —upgrade to 5.10.179-5 or later
• —upgrade to 5.10.179-5~deb10u1 or later

Is CVE-2022-40982 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 0.8%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (9)

• from 0, < 20230808-r0
• from 0, < 4.15.5-r0
• from 0, < 3.20230808.1~deb10u1
• from 0, < 3.20230808.1~deb11u1
• from 0, < 3.20230808.1~deb11u1
• from 0, < 4.19.289-2
• from 0, < 5.10.179-5
• from 0, < 5.10.179-5
• from 0, < 5.10.179-5~deb10u1

CVSS scores

References (2)

• ADVISORYsecurity.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2022-40982
• ADVISORYsecurity-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-40982