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FreeBSD: VID-162A675B-6251-11EE-8E38-002590C1F29C (CVE-2023-5370): FreeBSD -- arm64 boot CPUs may lack speculative execution protections

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FreeBSD: VID-162A675B-6251-11EE-8E38-002590C1F29C (CVE-2023-5370): FreeBSD -- arm64 boot CPUs may lack speculative execution protections

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/03/2023
Created
10/05/2023
Added
10/04/2023
Modified
10/12/2023

Description

On CPU 0 the check for the SMCCC workaround is called before SMCCC support has been initialized. This resulted in no speculative execution workarounds being installed on CPU 0.

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-base-13_2-release-p4

References

  • CVE-2023-5370

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