CVE-2020-12912

Name
CVE-2020-12912
Description
A potential vulnerability in the AMD extension to Linux "hwmon" service may allow an attacker to use the Linux-based Running Average Power Limit (RAPL) interface to show various side channel attacks. In line with industry partners, AMD has updated the RAPL interface to require privileged access.
NVD Severity
medium
Other trackers
CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia
Mailing lists
oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq
Exploits
Exploit DB, Metasploit
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
Vendor Advisory https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/product-security

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:amd:energy_driver_for_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* energy_driver_for_linux == None == None

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status