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CVE-2022-2196

Public on 2023-01-09
Modified on 2024-01-12
Description

A regression exists in the Linux Kernel within KVM: nVMX that allowed for speculative execution attacks. L2 can carry out Spectre v2 attacks on L1 due to L1 thinking it doesn't need retpolines or IBPB after running L2 due to KVM (L0) advertising eIBRS support to L1. An attacker at L2 with code execution can execute code on an indirect branch on the host machine. We recommend upgrading to Kernel 6.2 or past commit 2e7eab81425a

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
5.6
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 2 - Kernel-5.10 Extra kernel 2023-03-17 16:46 ALAS2KERNEL-5.10-2023-028
Amazon Linux 2 - Kernel-5.15 Extra kernel 2023-03-17 16:46 ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2023-015
Amazon Linux 2 - Kernel-5.4 Extra kernel 2023-03-17 16:45 ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2023-043
Amazon Linux 2023 kernel 2023-03-11 01:10 ALAS2023-2023-127

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 5.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Red Hat: CVE-2022-2196 Mitre: CVE-2022-2196 FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity