vulnerability

Amazon Linux 2023: CVE-2023-20569: Medium priority package update for kernel

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Aug 8, 2023
Added
Feb 17, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

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.
A side channel vulnerability was found in hw amd. Some AMD CPUs may allow an attacker to influence the return address prediction. This issue may result in speculative execution at an attacker-controlled instruction pointer register, potentially leading to information disclosure.

Solutions

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Title
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