ubuntu-cve-2024-7881
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2025-01-28 15:15
Modified
2026-05-20 15:07
Summary
Details

An unprivileged context can trigger a data memory-dependent prefetch engine to fetch the contents of a privileged location and consume those contents as an address that is also dereferenced.

Severity
5.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
N/A (UNKNOWN)
medium
References
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  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "An unprivileged context can trigger a data memory-dependent prefetch engine to fetch the contents of a privileged location and consume those contents as an address that is also dereferenced.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2024-7881",
  "modified": "2026-05-20T15:07:28Z",
  "published": "2025-01-28T15:15:00Z",
  "references": [
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      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-7881"
    },
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      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-7881"
    },
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      "url": "https://developer.arm.com/Arm%20Security%20Center/Arm%20CPU%20Vulnerability%20CVE-2024-7881"
    }
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      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "medium",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
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    "CVE-2024-7881"
  ]
}



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