CVE-2022-29901
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CVE Details
| Release Date: | 2022-07-12 |
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.
See more information about CVE-2022-29901 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD
NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS v3 metrics
| Base Score: | 5.6 |
| Vector String: | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| Version: | 3.1 |
| Attack Vector: | Local |
| Attack Complexity: | High |
| Privileges Required: | Low |
| User Interaction: | None |
| Scope: | Changed |
| Confidentiality: | High |
| Integrity: | None |
| Availability: | None |
Errata information
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (kernel) | ELSA-2022-7337 | 2022-11-03 |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2022-9709 | 2022-08-15 |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2024-12150 | 2024-02-12 |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2024-12151 | 2024-02-12 |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2025-20019 | 2025-01-11 |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (kernel-uek-container) | ELSA-2022-9710 | 2022-08-15 |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (kernel-uek-container) | ELSA-2024-12153 | 2024-02-12 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (kernel) | ELSA-2022-7110 | 2022-10-26 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2022-9590 | 2022-07-12 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2022-9709 | 2022-08-15 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2024-12151 | 2024-02-12 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2024-12433 | 2024-06-12 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2025-20019 | 2025-01-11 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (kernel-uek-container) | ELSA-2022-9591 | 2022-07-12 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (kernel-uek-container) | ELSA-2022-9710 | 2022-08-15 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (kernel-uek-container) | ELSA-2024-12154 | 2024-02-12 |
| Oracle Linux version 9 (kernel) | ELSA-2022-8267 | 2022-11-22 |
| Oracle Linux version 9 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2022-9590 | 2022-07-12 |
| Oracle Linux version 9 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2024-12433 | 2024-06-12 |
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