Thursday, January 4, 2018

Microprocessor Side-Channel Attacks (Meltdown and Spectre) Impact on Dell products

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Microprocessor Side-Channel Attacks (CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5754): Impact on @DellEMC products (Dell Enterprise Servers, Storage and Networking)

CVE ID: CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5754

Dell EMC is aware of the new side-channel analysis attacks (also known as #Meltdown and #Spectre) affecting many modern #microprocessors that were discovered and published by a team of security researchers on January 3, 2018.

Dell EMC is investigating this issue to identify any potential impact to products and will update this article with information as it becomes available, including impacted products and remediation steps.

Dell EMC recommends customers to follow security best practices for malware protection in general to protect against possible exploitation of these analysis methods until any future updates can be applied.

Links for the below products will be provided as they become available.
  • Dell EMC products (Dell EMC Storage products): 516117
  • Dell Client products: SLN308587
  • RSA products: DOC-85418
  • VCE products
References:
The complete affected platform list for Dell EMC (Dell PowerEdge Servers, Storage and Networking) will be added as the information becomes available.
Article ID: SLN308588


Last Date Modified: 01/04/2018 12:49 PM



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