CVE-2018-3693

unknown
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk

Description

Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and branch prediction may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a speculative buffer overflow and side-channel analysis.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-3693

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-3693.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed4.15.11-1
debian debianbullseyefixed4.15.11-1
debian debianforkyfixed4.15.11-1
debian debiansidfixed4.15.11-1
debian debiantrixiefixed4.15.11-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.