CVE-2022-2196
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-01-09 10:59
Modified
2024-08-03 00:32
Severity ?
5.8 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L
Summary
Speculative execution attacks in KVM VMX
References
cve-coordination@google.comhttps://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2e7eab81425ad6c875f2ed47c0ce01e78afc38a5Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve-coordination@google.comhttps://kernel.dance/#2e7eab81425aPatch, Third Party Advisory
cve-coordination@google.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/05/msg00005.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
LinuxLinux Kernel
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