Reptar: New Intel CPU Vulnerability Impacts Multi-Tenant Virtualized Environments
Intel has released fixes to close out a high-severity flaw codenamed Reptar that impacts its desktop, mobile, and server CPUs.
HARDWARE & MIDDLEWARE
11/16/20231 min read
Tracked as CVE-2023-23583 (CVSS score: 8.8), the issue has the potential to "allow escalation of privilege and/or information disclosure and/or denial of service via local access."
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability could also permit a bypass of the CPU's security boundaries, according to Google Cloud, which described it as an issue stemming from how redundant prefixes are interpreted by the processor.
More Information: https://thehackernews.com/2023/11/reptar-new-intel-cpu-vulnerability.html
