K000135795 : Downfall Attacks CVE-2022-40982

Security Advisory Description

Information exposure through microarchitectural state after transient execution in certain vector execution units for some Intel® Processors may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable information disclosure via local access. (CVE-2022-40982)

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow an authenticated user to enable information disclosure via local access.

This hardware issue impacts all of the following F5 platforms using Intel processors:

• VELOS
  • BX110 Blade (A118)
• rSeries
  • r10600, r10800, r10900 (C128)
  • r10920-DF (C137)
  • r5600, r5800, r5900 (C129)

For products with ****** in the various columns, F5 is still researching the issue and will update this article after confirming the required information. F5 Support has no additional information about this issue.