vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2018-15572: Kernel: hw: cpu: userspace-userspace spectreRSB attack

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Aug 20, 2018
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

The spectre_v2_select_mitigation function in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c in the Linux kernel before 4.18.1 does not always fill RSB upon a context switch, which makes it easier for attackers to conduct userspace-userspace spectreRSB attacks.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
Title
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