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VMSA-2022-0020: Return-Stack-Buffer-Underflow and Branch Type Confusion vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-23825)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jul 12, 2022
Added
Aug 9, 2022
Modified
Jun 24, 2026

Description

Aliases in the branch predictor may cause some AMD processors to predict the wrong branch type potentially leading to information disclosure.

Solutions

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