CVE-2020-0548

Cleanup errors in some Intel(R) Processors may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable information disclosure via local access.

Weakness

The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use.

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

• Use a language that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
• For example, languages such as Java, Ruby, and Lisp perform automatic garbage collection that releases memory for objects that have been deallocated.

Related Attack Patterns

• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/125.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/130.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/131.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/494.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/495.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/496.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/666.html

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00016.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00019.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DT2VKDMQ3I37NBNJ256A2EXR7OJHXXKZ/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T5OUM24ZC43G4IDT3JUCIHJTSDXJSK6Y/
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200210-0004/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4385-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4701
• https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00329.html