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CVE-2022-29901

Published: Jul 12, 2022

Modified: Aug 3, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

5.6

MEDIUM

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.

VendorProductVersions

Intel

Intel Microprocessors

affected
generations 6 to 8

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-200

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

High

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

None

Availability

None

References

FEDORA-2022-c69ef9c1dd
vendor-advisory
FEDORA-2022-8aab5b5cde
vendor-advisory
DSA-5207
vendor-advisory
GLSA-202402-07
vendor-advisory

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