vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2022-29901: Xen: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jul 12, 2022
Added
Feb 5, 2024
Modified
Aug 13, 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

gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-emulation-xen
Title
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