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Security Alert

● Critical

● High

● Medium

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Warning Date

Severity Level

Warning Number

Target Sector

19 February, 2020

● Medium

2020-927

All

Description:

F5 Networks has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in the following products:

This hardware issue impacts all platforms using the following Intel processor families:
- Datacenter Microprocessors
- Client and Xeon E3 Microprocessors
- Intel® Xeon® Processor E3 v5 & v6 Family
- Intel® Xeon® E Processor
- Intel® Xeon® D, W Processor
- Intel® Core i9 8th & 9th Generation
BIG-IP
- C113 BIG-IP 4000s - 4200v
- C109 BIG-IP 5000s - 5250v
- D110 BIG-IP 7000s - 7250v
Traffix
- Only HPE Gen10 servers are vulnerable.

Threats:

Attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by doing the following:

Best practice and Recommendations:

BIG-IP:
- VE systems: contact your cloud provider or hypervisor vendor to ensure their platforms or products are not subject to this vulnerability.
- vCMP systems: configure vCMP guests to use at least two cores so that physical CPUs are not shared among guests.
Traffix:
- Update to the latest firmware provided by Intel. For more information, refer to Intel Security Advisory INTEL-SA-00317.

For more details:

Last updated at 19 February, 2020