CVE-2020-12912

Publication date

2020-11-12 19:08:57

Family

AMD

State

PUBLISHED

Description

A potential vulnerability in the AMD extension to Linux "hwmon" service may allow an attacker to use the Linux-based Running Average Power Limit (RAPL) interface to show various side channel attacks. In line with industry partners, AMD has updated the RAPL interface to require privileged access.