vulnerability
VMSA-2022-0020: Return-Stack-Buffer-Underflow and Branch Type Confusion vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-29901)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N) | Jul 12, 2022 | Aug 9, 2022 | Feb 11, 2025 |
Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jul 12, 2022
Added
Aug 9, 2022
Modified
Feb 11, 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(s)
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