CVE-2022-29901

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

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	bullseye	5.10.223-1	fixed
	bullseye (security)	5.10.226-1	fixed
	bookworm	6.1.115-1	fixed
	bookworm (security)	6.1.112-1	fixed
	trixie	6.11.7-1	fixed
	sid	6.11.9-1	fixed

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

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Origin
linux	source	buster	4.19.269-1	DLA-3245-1
linux	source	bullseye	5.10.136-1	DSA-5207-1
linux	source	(unstable)	5.18.14-1
linux-5.10	source	buster	5.10.136-1~deb10u1	DLA-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