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VMSA-2018-0002: ESXi Branch Target Injection (CVE-2017-5715)

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Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jan 4, 2018
Added
Jan 10, 2018
Modified
Oct 7, 2025

Description

Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and indirect branch prediction may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis.

Solutions

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