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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: intel

Published: 2022-07-12T00:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-03T06:33:43.000Z

Reserved: 2022-04-28T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2022-29901

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-07-12T19:15:08.437

Modified: 2024-02-04T08:15:11.163

Link: CVE-2022-29901

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2022-07-12T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2022-29901 - Bugzilla