MSRC_CVE-2020-10766
Vulnerability from csaf_microsoft - Published: 2020-09-02 00:00 - Updated: 2020-09-25 00:00Summary
A logic bug flaw was found in Linux kernel before 5.8-rc1 in the implementation of SSBD. A bug in the logic handling allows an attacker with a local account to disable SSBD protection during a context switch when additional speculative execution mitigations are in place. This issue was introduced when the per task/process conditional STIPB switching was added on top of the existing SSBD switching. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.
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