CVE-2022-29901 (GCVE-0-2022-29901)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-07-12 00:00
Modified
2024-08-03 06:33
Severity ?
5.6 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
Summary
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.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Intel Intel Microprocessors Version: generations 6 to 8
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