vulnerability

F5 Networks: CVE-2022-29901: K83713003: RetBleed CPU vulnerability CVE-2022-29901

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jul 12, 2022
Added
Aug 3, 2022
Modified
Aug 11, 2025

Description

Intel microprocessor generations 6 to 8 are affected by a new Spectre variant that is able to bypass their retpoline mitigation in the kernel to leak arbitrary data. An attacker with unprivileged user access can hijack return instructions to achieve arbitrary speculative code execution under certain microarchitecture-dependent conditions.

Solution

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Title
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