cvelistv5 - cve-2022-42331

cve-2022-42331

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2023-03-21 00:00

Modified

2024-08-03 13:03

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

URL	Tags
security@xen.org	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/03/21/3	Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
security@xen.org	http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-429.html	Vendor Advisory
security@xen.org	https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5L6PM4RE7MUE6OWA32ZVOXCP235RM2TM/	Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
security@xen.org	https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/APBMS2Q6746AXAFAITNJMGBNFGNMVLWR/	Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
security@xen.org	https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-07
security@xen.org	https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5378	Third Party Advisory
security@xen.org	https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-429.txt	Vendor Advisory

Impacted products

▼	Vendor	Product
	Xen	xen

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Not exploited: This vulnerability was not exploited or seen by the user reporting the sighting.
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Not patched: This vulnerability was not successfully patched by the user reporting the sighting.

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