CVE-2022-42331
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-03-21 00:00
Modified
2025-02-13 16:33
Severity ?
Summary
x86: speculative vulnerability in 32bit SYSCALL path Due to an oversight in the very original Spectre/Meltdown security work (XSA-254), one entrypath performs its speculation-safety actions too late. In some configurations, there is an unprotected RET instruction which can be attacked with a variety of speculative attacks.
References
security@xen.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/03/21/3Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
security@xen.orghttp://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-429.htmlVendor Advisory
security@xen.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5L6PM4RE7MUE6OWA32ZVOXCP235RM2TM/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
security@xen.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/APBMS2Q6746AXAFAITNJMGBNFGNMVLWR/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
security@xen.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-07
security@xen.orghttps://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5378Third Party Advisory
security@xen.orghttps://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-429.txtVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/03/21/3Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-429.htmlVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5L6PM4RE7MUE6OWA32ZVOXCP235RM2TM/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/APBMS2Q6746AXAFAITNJMGBNFGNMVLWR/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-07
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5378Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-429.txtVendor Advisory
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