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CVE-2019-11165: INTEL-SA-00284

Improper conditions check in the Linux kernel driver for the Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Pro Edition before version 19.4 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via local access.

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Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Advisory

**Summary: **

A potential security vulnerability in the Intel® Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Software Development Kit (SDK) for OpenCL™ may allow denial of service. Intel is releasing Linux kernel driver updates to mitigate this potential vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details:

CVEID: CVE-2019-11165

Description: Improper conditions check in the Linux kernel driver for the Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Pro Edition before version 19.4 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via local access.

CVSS Base Score: 5.0 Medium

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

Affected Products:

Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ before version 19.4.

Recommendations:

Intel recommends updating Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ to version 19.3 and to download and install patch 0.24 on version 19.3:

http://download.altera.com/akdlm/software/acs/19.3/0.24cl/opencl-19.3-0.24cl-linux.run

Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ version 19.4 and future versions will contain the fix.

Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ is available for download at this location: http://fpgasoftware.intel.com/opencl/

Acknowledgements:

Intel would like to thank Nitin Pundir for reporting this issue.

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

12/10/2019

Initial Release

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