Bug 2171227 (CVE-2022-21216)

Summary:	CVE-2022-21216 kernel: Intel firmware update for insufficient granularity of access control in out-of-band management in some Intel Atom and Intel Xeon Scalable Processors
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Alex <allarkin>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Nobody <nobody>
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Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified	CC:	arachman, dfreiber, drow, jburrell, jfindysz, lveyde, michal.skrivanek, mperina, rogbas, vkumar
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. A potential security vulnerability in some Intel(R) Atom(R) and Intel(R) Xeon(R) Scalable Processors may allow privilege escalation. This flaw may allow a privileged user to enable privilege escalation via adjacent network access.	Story Points:	---
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Bug Depends On:	2171228, 2171229, 2171230, 2171231, 2171232, 2171233, 2171234, 2171235, 2171236, 2171237, 2171238, 2171239
Bug Blocks:	2169989

Description Alex 2023-02-19 10:43:34 UTC

A potential security vulnerability in some Intel(R) Atom(R) and Intel(R) Xeon(R) Scalable Processors may allow escalation of privilege.  Intel is releasing firmware updates to mitigate this potential vulnerability.

Reference:
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00700.html

Comment 1 Alex 2023-02-19 10:56:06 UTC

Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2171228]

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2023-09-19 01:08:44 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2023:5209 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5209