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CVE-2022-29901

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.

Priority: LOW
CVSS v3: 6.5
Component: linux
Publish Date: Jul 12, 2022
Related ID: --
CVSS v2: MEDIUM
Modified Date: Jul 15, 2022

Find out more about CVE-2022-29901 from the MITRE-CVE dictionary and NIST NVD


Products Affected

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Product Name Status Defect Fixed Downloads
Linux
Wind River Linux LTS 17 Won't Fix -- -- --
Wind River Linux 8 Requires LTSS -- -- --
Wind River Linux 9 Requires LTSS -- -- --
Wind River Linux 7 Requires LTSS -- -- --
Wind River Linux LTS 21 Fixed LIN1021-3944
10.21.20.14 --
Wind River Linux LTS 22 Fixed -- 10.22.33.1 --
Wind River Linux LTS 18 Fixed LIN1018-9510
10.18.44.29 --
Wind River Linux LTS 19 Fixed LIN1019-8566
10.19.45.29 --
Wind River Linux CD release Fixed LINCD-9780
10.22.36.0 --
Wind River Linux 6 Requires LTSS -- -- --
Wind River Linux LTS 23 Not Vulnerable -- -- --
VxWorks
VxWorks 7 Vulnerable -- -- --
VxWorks 6.9 Vulnerable -- -- --
Helix Virtualization Platform Cert Edition
Helix Virtualization Platform Cert Edition Not Vulnerable -- -- --

Related Products

Product Name Status Defect Fixed Downloads

Notes
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