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prionPRIOn knowledge basePRION:CVE-2022-2196
HistoryJan 09, 2023 - 11:15 a.m.

Design/Logic Flaw

2023-01-0911:15:00
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15
linux kernel
kvm
spectre v2
speculative execution
upgrade

8.6 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

9.8%

A regression exists in the Linux Kernel within KVM: nVMX that allowed for speculative execution attacks.Β L2 can carry out Spectre v2 attacks on L1 due to L1 thinking it doesn’t need retpolines or IBPBΒ after running L2 due to KVM (L0) advertising eIBRS support to L1. An attacker at L2 with code execution can execute code on an indirect branch on the host machine. We recommend upgrading to Kernel 6.2 or past commitΒ 2e7eab81425a