CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-24980

Protection Mechanism Failure

Published: Aug 14, 2024 | Modified: Aug 14, 2024
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

Protection mechanism failure in some 3rd, 4th, and 5th Generation Intel(R) Xeon(R) Processors may allow a privileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.

Weakness

The product does not use or incorrectly uses a protection mechanism that provides sufficient defense against directed attacks against the product.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Intel-microcode Ubuntu devel *
Intel-microcode Ubuntu esm-infra-legacy/trusty *
Intel-microcode Ubuntu esm-infra/bionic *
Intel-microcode Ubuntu esm-infra/xenial *
Intel-microcode Ubuntu focal *
Intel-microcode Ubuntu jammy *
Intel-microcode Ubuntu noble *
Intel-microcode Ubuntu trusty/esm *
Intel-microcode Ubuntu upstream *

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