Vulnerabilities > CVE-2022-42331
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
NONE 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.
Vulnerable Configurations
References
- https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-429.txt
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-429.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/03/21/3
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5378
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5L6PM4RE7MUE6OWA32ZVOXCP235RM2TM/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/APBMS2Q6746AXAFAITNJMGBNFGNMVLWR/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-07