Summary

Multiple NetApp products incorporate Intel chipsets and processors. Some Intel processors are vulnerable to a speculative execution side channel attack that leverages the Lazy Floating Point Unit (FPU) state restore technique. This is a technique used to save and restore the FPU state during context switching between application processes. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to disclosure of sensitive information.

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to disclosure of sensitive information.

Vulnerability Scoring Details

Exploitation and Public Announcements

NetApp is aware of public discussion of this vulnerability.

References

• https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00145.html

Affected Products

• NetApp SteelStore Cloud Integrated Storage
• ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility

Products Not Affected

• 7-Mode Transition Tool
• ATTO FibreBridge - 6500N
• Active IQ Unified Manager for Linux
• Active IQ Unified Manager for Microsoft Windows
• Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere
• Brocade Fabric Operating System Firmware
• Cloud Manager
• Clustered Data ONTAP
• Clustered Data ONTAP Antivirus Connector
• Data ONTAP operating in 7-Mode
• E-Series SANtricity OS Controller Software 11.x
• E-Series SANtricity OS Controller Software 8.x
• E-Series SANtricity Storage Manager
• E-Series SANtricity Web Services (REST API) for Web Services Proxy
• Element Plug-in for vCenter Server
• FAS/AFF BIOS
• Host Utilities - SAN for Linux
• Host Utilities - SAN for Windows
• MetroCluster Tiebreaker for clustered Data ONTAP
• NetApp Cloud Backup (formerly AltaVault)
• NetApp Cloud Backup OST Plug-in (formerly AltaVault OST Plug-in)
• NetApp Converged Systems Advisor Agent
• NetApp HCI Compute Node (Bootstrap OS)
• NetApp HCI Storage Nodes
• NetApp Manageability SDK
• NetApp NFS Plug-in for VMware VAAI
• NetApp SANtricity Cloud Connector
• NetApp SANtricity SMI-S Provider
• NetApp SMI-S Provider
• NetApp SolidFire & HCI Management Node
• NetApp SolidFire & HCI Storage Node (Element Software)
• NetApp Storage Encryption
• NetApp VASA Provider for Clustered Data ONTAP 9.6 and above
• OnCommand API Services
• OnCommand Insight
• OnCommand Unified Manager Core Package
• OnCommand Workflow Automation
• Open Systems SnapVault Agent
• Service Processor
• Single Mailbox Recovery
• Snap Creator Framework
• SnapCenter
• SnapDrive for Unix
• SnapDrive for Windows
• SnapManager for Exchange
• SnapManager for Hyper-V
• SnapManager for MS SQL
• SnapManager for Oracle
• SnapManager for SAP
• SnapManager for Sharepoint
• Storage Replication Adapter for Clustered Data ONTAP for VMware vSphere 9.6 and above
• Storage Services Connector
• StorageGRID (formerly StorageGRID Webscale)
• StorageGRID9 (9.x and prior)
• System Manager 9.x
• Virtual Storage Console for VMware vSphere 9.6 and above

Software Versions and Fixes

NetApp's currently available patches are listed below.

Workarounds

None at this time.

Obtaining Software Fixes

Software fixes will be made available through the NetApp Support website in the Software Download section.

https://mysupport.netapp.com/site/downloads/

Customers who do not have access to the Support website should contact Technical Support at the number below to obtain the patches.

Contact Information

Check http://mysupport.netapp.com for further updates.
For questions, contact NetApp at:

Technical Support
mysupport.netapp.com
1 888 4 NETAPP (1 888 463 8277) (U.S. and Canada)
+00 800 44 638277 (EMEA/Europe)
+800 800 80 800 (Asia/Pacific)

Status of This Notice

Final.

This advisory should be considered the single source of current, up-to-date, authorized and accurate information from NetApp regarding Full Support products and versions.

This advisory is posted at the following link:
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/NTAP-20181016-0001

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