January 17, 2018
Hitachi, Ltd. IT Platform Products Management Division
Notice on "side channel attack to the CPUs with speculative execution function"
Researchers disclosed the vulnerabilities below which allow side channel attack to the CPUs with speculative execution function.
[JVNVU#93823979(CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5754)]
CVE-2017-5715 and CVE-2017-5753 are known as Spectre.
CVE-2017-5754 is known as Meltdown.
When a malicious software is executed on a target product of the attack, the data stored in the memory that is used for each processing in OS kernel space and user space is unexpectedly exposed by the vulnerabilities.
However, the vulnerabilities do not affect our storage products (including SVP) because it is impossible to execute any external program on the storage products.
- Hitachi Universal Storage Platform
- Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V/VM
- Hitachi Universal Storage Platform H12000/H20000/H24000
- Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform
- Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G series/F series
- Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform VP9500
- Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform VX7
- Hitachi Network storage Controller
- Hitachi Network storage Controller H10000
- Hitachi Unified Storage VM
- Hitachi Unified Storage 100 series
- Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 series
- BR1600/BR1650 series
- Hitachi Data Ingestor
- Hitachi NAS Platform
- Hitachi Content Platform
- Hitachi Content Platform Anywhere
- Hitachi Capacity Optimization
- Fibre Channel Switch(HT-4990-SWxxxx)
- Backup Storage(TFxxxx)
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