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vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-20569: Observable Discrepancy

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Aug 8, 2023
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Jun 18, 2026

Description

A side channel vulnerability on some of the AMD CPUs may allow an attacker to influence the return address prediction. This may result in speculative execution at an attacker-controlled address, potentially leading to information disclosure.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-xen
Title
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