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CVE-2020-10767

Public on 2020-07-14
Modified on 2020-07-21
Description

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of the Enhanced IBPB (Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier). The IBPB mitigation will be disabled when STIBP is not available or when the Enhanced Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation (IBRS) is available. This flaw allows a local attacker to perform a Spectre V2 style attack when this configuration is active. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.

Severity
Important
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CVSS v3 Base Score
5.5
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 kernel 2020-07-14 21:14 ALAS-2020-1401
Amazon Linux 2 - Core kernel 2020-07-21 16:34 ALAS2-2020-1465
Amazon Linux 2 - Kernel-5.4 Extra kernel 2022-01-20 19:22 ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2022-013
Amazon Linux 2 - Livepatch Extra kernel-livepatch-4.14.181-142.260 2020-09-04 17:55 ALAS2LIVEPATCH-2020-025

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 1.9 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N