CVE-2022-29901
Vulnerability Summary
Timeline
Description
Intel microprocessor generations 6 to 8 are affected by a new Spectre variant that is able to bypass their retpoline mitigation in the kernel to leak arbitrary data. An attacker with unprivileged user access can hijack return instructions to achieve arbitrary speculative code execution under certain microarchitecture-dependent conditions.
CVSS Metrics
- v3.1•MEDIUM•Score: 5.6CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
- v3.1•MEDIUM•Score: 6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
- v2.0•LOW•Score: 1.9AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
EPSS Trends
Current EPSS score: 0.07%• Percentile: 22%
Techniques & Countermeasures
- CWE-668•Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere
The product exposes a resource to the wrong control sphere, providing unintended actors with inappropriate access to the resource.
- CWE-200•Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information.
Affected Systems
- debian•debian_linux
10.0 | 11.0
- fedoraproject•fedora
35 | 36
- intel•core_i3-6100_firmware
na
- intel•core_i3-6100e_firmware
na
- intel•core_i3-6100h_firmware
na
- intel•core_i3-6100t_firmware
na
- intel•core_i3-6100te_firmware
na
- intel•core_i3-6100u_firmware
na
- intel•core_i3-6102e_firmware
na
- intel•core_i3-6110u_firmware
na
- intel•core_i3-6120_firmware
na
- intel•core_i3-6120t_firmware
na
- intel•core_i3-6167u_firmware
na
- intel•core_i3-6300_firmware
na
- intel•core_i3-6300t_firmware
na
- intel•core_i3-6320_firmware
na
- intel•core_i3-6320t_firmware
na
- intel•core_i3-8000_firmware
na
- intel•core_i3-8000t_firmware
na
- intel•core_i3-8020_firmware
na
- intel•core_i3-8100_firmware
na
- intel•core_i3-8100h_firmware
na
- intel•core_i3-8100t_firmware
na
- intel•core_i3-8109u_firmware
na
- intel•core_i3-8120_firmware
na
- intel•core_i3-8130u_firmware
na
- intel•core_i3-8145u_firmware
na
- intel•core_i3-8300_firmware
na
- intel•core_i3-8300t_firmware
na
- intel•core_i3-8350k_firmware
na
- intel•core_i5-6200u_firmware
na
- intel•core_i5-6210u_firmware
na
- intel•core_i5-6260u_firmware
na
- intel•core_i5-6267u_firmware
na
- intel•core_i5-6287u_firmware
na
- intel•core_i5-6300hq_firmware
na
- intel•core_i5-6300u_firmware
na
- intel•core_i5-6310u_firmware
na
- intel•core_i5-6350hq_firmware
na
- intel•core_i5-6360u_firmware
na
- intel•core_i5-6400_firmware
na
- intel•core_i5-6400t_firmware
na
- intel•core_i5-6440eq_firmware
na
- intel•core_i5-6440hq_firmware
na
- intel•core_i5-6442eq_firmware
na
- intel•core_i5-6500_firmware
na
- intel•core_i5-6500t_firmware
na
- intel•core_i5-6500te_firmware
na
- intel•core_i5-6600_firmware
na
- intel•core_i5-6600k_firmware
na
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References (14)
- https://comsec.ethz.ch/retbleed
- https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00702.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/07/12/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/07/12/4
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/07/12/5
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/07/13/1
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/M27MB3QFNIJV4EQQSXWARHP3OGX6CR6K/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/D4RW5FCIYFNCQOEFJEUIRW3DGYW7CWBG/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5207
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00011.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221007-0007/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00034.html
- https://www.secpod.com/blog/retbleed-intel-and-amd-processor-information-disclosure-vulnerability/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-07