vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2022-29901

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jul 12, 2022
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Feb 9, 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.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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