Intel® Optane™ PMem Advisory

Summary:

A potential security vulnerability in some Intel® Optane™ Persistent Memory (PMem) may allow denial of service. Intel is releasing firmware updates to mitigate this potential vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details:

CVEID: CVE-2021-0083

Description: Improper input validation in some Intel® Optane™ PMem versions before versions 1.2.0.5446 or 2.2.0.1547 may allow a privileged user to potentially enable denial of service via local access.

CVSS Base Score: 6.0 Medium

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H****

Affected Products:

Intel® Optane™ PMem with firmware before versions 1.2.0.5446 or 2.2.0.1547.

Processor

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Mitigated version or higher

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3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor

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Intel® Optane™ Pmem 200 Series

2.2.0.1547

2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor

Intel® Xeon® W Processor 3200 Series

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Intel® Optane™ Pmem 100 Series

1.2.0.5446

Recommendations:

Intel recommends that users of Intel® Optane™ PMem update to versions 1.2.0.5446 or 2.2.0.1547 or later provided by the system manufacturer that addresses these issues.

Acknowledgements:

This issue was found internally by Intel. Intel would like to thank Paul Leung, Jaroslaw Poswiata, Michael Pham, Stephen Thompson and Wojciech Pasternak.****

Intel, and nearly the entire technology industry, follows a disclosure practice called Coordinated Disclosure, under which a cybersecurity vulnerability is generally publicly disclosed only after mitigations are available.