vulnerability
Gentoo Linux: CVE-2022-29901: Xen: Multiple Vulnerabilities
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N) | Jul 12, 2022 | Feb 5, 2024 | Aug 13, 2025 |
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
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