SECURITY VULNERABILITY RESPONSE INFORMATION
Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS)
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Impacted Products
The recently reported MDS hardware vulnerability has been addressed by the Security Response Team. MDS is a group of speculative execution side channel vulnerabilities.
MDS is tracked under the following CVE entries:
We have determined that some Wind River products are impacted, including the following:
- Wind River Linux
- Wind River Titanium Cloud
Customers with questions about these vulnerabilities should contact Wind River Customer Support or their local Wind River representative for information regarding mitigation.
REMEDIATION
The following list provides information about Wind River products and the CVE-2018-12126, CVE-2018-12130, CVE-2018-12127, and CVE-2019-11091 vulnerabilities. For additional questions, please contact Wind River Customer Support or your Wind River sales representative.
| Product | Mitigation |
|---|---|
| VxWorks | https://www.windriver.com/security/announcements/microarchitectural-data-sampling/MDS-VxWorks-FAQ.pdf |
| Wind River Linux | Please see the Wind River security notice at https://support2.windriver.com/index.php?page=security-notices&on=view&id=6621 |
| Wind River Titanium Cloud | https://support2.windriver.com/index.php?page=security-notices&on=view&id=6633 |
We continue to monitor the situation on our security mailing lists in case there are new developments, and will post periodic updates via RSS feeds and the Wind River Support Network.
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This is just one of the more than 6,000 security vulnerabilities that our Security Response Team analyzes annually, and only one of the more than 1,000 annually for which we have produced a fix and rolled it out to all of our current customers.
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Customers are urged to keep their support and maintenance contracts current, and to install the latest available updates to their installed products. If you don’t know if your support and maintenance contract is current, make sure to contact your Wind River representative.