vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2020-10768

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Sep 15, 2020
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

A flaw was found in the Linux Kernel before 5.8-rc1 in the prctl() function, where it can be used to enable indirect branch speculation after it has been disabled. This call incorrectly reports it as being 'force disabled' when it is not and opens the system to Spectre v2 attacks. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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