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             AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution

                               ESB-2021.3370
                            Intel HAXM Advisory
                              13 October 2021

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        AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product:           Intel Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager (HAXM)
Publisher:         Intel
Operating System:  Windows
                   macOS
                   UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX)
Impact/Access:     Increased Privileges     -- Existing Account
                   Denial of Service        -- Existing Account
                   Access Confidential Data -- Existing Account
Resolution:        Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names:         CVE-2021-0182 CVE-2021-0180 

Original Bulletin: 
   https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00544.html

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Intel ID:                 INTEL-SA-00544
Advisory Category:        Software
Impact of vulnerability:  Escalation of Privilege, Information Disclosure
Severity rating:          MEDIUM
Original release:         10/12/2021
Last revised:             10/12/2021

Summary:

Potential security vulnerabilities in the Intel Hardware Accelerated Execution
Manager (HAXM) software may allow escalation of privilege or information
disclosure. Intel is releasing software updates to mitigate these potential
vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability Details:

CVEID: CVE-2021-0180

Description: Uncontrolled resource consumption in the Intel(R) HAXM software
before version 7.6.6 may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially enable
privilege escalation via local access.

CVSS Base Score: 6.2 Medium

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H

CVEID: CVE-2021-0182

Description: Uncontrolled resource consumption in the Intel(R) HAXM software
before version 7.6.6 may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially enable
information disclosure via local access.

CVSS Base Score: 5.1 Medium

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected Products:

Intel HAXM before version 7.6.6.

Recommendations:

Intel recommends updating Intel HAXM software to version 7.6.6 or later.

Updates are available for download at this location: https://github.com/intel/
haxm/releases

Acknowledgements:

These issues were found externally.

Intel, and nearly the entire technology industry, follows a disclosure practice
called Coordinated Disclosure, under which a cybersecurity vulnerability is
generally publicly disclosed only after mitigations are available.

Revision History

Revision    Date      Description
1.0      10/12/2021 Initial Release

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