THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2022-2196 (MEDIUM 5.8) — A regression exists in the Linux Kernel within KVM: nVMX that allowed for speculative execution attacks. L2 can carry out Spectre v2 attacks on L1 due to L1 thinking it doesn't need retpolines or IBPB after running L2 due to KVM (L0) advertising eIBRS support to L1. An attacker a
[NVD] CVE-2022-2196 (MEDIUM 5.8) — A regression exists in the Linux Kernel within KVM: nVMX that allowed for speculative execution attacks. L2 can carry out Spectre v2 attacks on L1 due to L1 thinking it doesn't need retpolines or IBPB after running L2 due to KVM (L0) advertising eIBRS support to L1. An attacker a
CVE-2022-2196 CVSS: 5.8 MEDIUM Published: 2023-01-09T11:15:10.583
A regression exists in the Linux Kernel within KVM: nVMX that allowed for speculative execution attacks. L2 can carry out Spectre v2 attacks on L1 due to L1 thinking it doesn't need retpolines or IBPB after running L2 due to KVM (L0) advertising eIBRS support to L1. An attacker at L2 with code execution can execute code on an indir
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Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-2196