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OVP8-481 : Security Advisory - linux - CVE-2018-15572 (SpectreRSB)

Created: May 10, 2019    Updated: Nov 21, 2019
Resolved Date: May 10, 2019
Previous ID: LIN8-10906
Found In Version: 8.0.0.25
Fix Version: 8.0.0.29
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 8
Component/s: Kernel

Description

Speculation Attacks using the Return Stack Buffer

Another called SpectreRSB that exploits the return stack buffer (RSB), a system in modern CPUs used to help predict return addresses, instead of the branch predictor unit.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1807.07940.pdf

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-15572
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