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        "text": "This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Cloud Linux Inc. and provide a link to the original.",
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          "text": "Improper validation in a model specific register (MSR) could allow a malicious program with ring0 access to modify SMM configuration while SMI lock is enabled, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution.",
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          "details": "Not vulnerable: CVE-2023-31315 is an SMM/MSR validation flaw in CPU microcode and is addressed via processor microcode updates (e.g., the microcode_ctl package or OEM BIOS), not by the linux-firmware package. Linux-firmware 20171128 contains no code that governs SMM lock enforcement and is not the vehicle for these microcode fixes, so the vulnerable path is absent for this project.",
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