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 Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: intel

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

Updated: 2024-02-04T08:06:41.365488

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


Link: CVE-2022-29901

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

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

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


Link: CVE-2022-29901

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