vulnerability
Red Hat: CVE-2022-29901: RetBleed Arbitrary Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions (Multiple Advisories)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N) | Jul 12, 2022 | Oct 26, 2022 | Mar 27, 2026 |
Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jul 12, 2022
Added
Oct 26, 2022
Modified
Mar 27, 2026
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.
Solutions
redhat-upgrade-kernelredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt
References
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