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CVE-2022-29901

Public on 2022-07-12
Modified on 2024-01-12
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.

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 1 kernel 2022-09-30 02:41 ALAS-2022-1636
Amazon Linux 2 - Core kernel 2022-09-01 21:09 ALAS2-2022-1838
Amazon Linux 2 - Kernel-5.10 Extra kernel 2022-08-15 21:23 ALAS2KERNEL-5.10-2022-019
Amazon Linux 2 - Kernel-5.15 Extra kernel 2022-08-15 21:23 ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2022-006
Amazon Linux 2 - Kernel-5.4 Extra kernel 2022-10-17 22:06 ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2022-037
Amazon Linux 2023 kernel 2023-02-17 20:46 ALAS2023-2023-070

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 5.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 1.9 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N