x86/speculation: Fill RSB on vmexit for IBRS (Linux Linux)

CVE-2022-49611
MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.28 % · percentile 21 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/speculation: Fill RSB on vmexit for IBRS Prevent RSB underflow/poisoning attacks with RSB. While at it, add a bunch of comments to attempt to document the current state of tribal knowledge about RSB attacks and what exactly is being mitigated.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected b9cdaaf0a3becc52e8b4662fef28c452c4f009b4 < 3d323b99ff5c8c57005184056d65f6af5b0479d8 ; affected 117cc7a908c83697b0b737d15ae1eb5943afe35b < f744b88dfc201bf8092833ec70b23c720188b527 ; affected 117cc7a908c83697b0b737d15ae1eb5943afe35b < 17a9fc4a7b91f8599223631bb6ae6416bc0de1c0 ; affected 117cc7a908c83697b0b737d15ae1eb5943afe35b < 4d7f72b6e1bc630bec7e4cd51814bc2b092bf153 ; affected 117cc7a908c83697b0b737d15ae1eb5943afe35b < 8d5cff499a6d740c91ff37963907e0e983c37f0f ; affected 117cc7a908c83697b0b737d15ae1eb5943afe35b < 8c38306e2e9257af4af2819aa287a4711ff36329
Linux · Linuxaffected 4.15 ; unaffected 0 < 4.15 ; unaffected 4.14.297 ≤ 4.14.* ; unaffected 4.19.266 ≤ 4.19.* ; unaffected 5.4.217 ≤ 5.4.* ; unaffected 5.10.133 ≤ 5.10.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD