CVE-2022-29901

NameCVE-2022-29901
DescriptionIntel 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-3102-1, DLA-3245-1, DSA-5207-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
linux (PTS)bullseye5.10.223-1fixed
bullseye (security)5.10.226-1fixed
bookworm6.1.106-3fixed
bookworm (security)6.1.112-1fixed
trixie6.10.11-1fixed
sid6.11.2-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
linuxsourcebuster4.19.269-1DLA-3245-1
linuxsourcebullseye5.10.136-1DSA-5207-1
linuxsource(unstable)5.18.14-1
linux-5.10sourcebuster5.10.136-1~deb10u1DLA-3102-1

Notes

https://comsec.ethz.ch/research/microarch/retbleed/
https://comsec.ethz.ch/wp-content/files/retbleed_sec22.pdf
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00702.html

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