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

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

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
07/12/2022
Created
08/29/2022
Added
08/03/2022
Modified
01/10/2024

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(s)

  • f5-big-ip-upgrade-latest

References

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