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CVE-2020-10767

CVSS v3.1 5.5 (Medium)
55% Progress
CVSS v2.0 1.9 (Low)
19% Progress
EPSS 0.04 % (5th)
0.04% Progress
Affected Products 1
Advisories 35
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A flaw was found in the Linux kernel before 5.8-rc1 in the implementation of the Enhanced IBPB (Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier). The IBPB mitigation will be disabled when STIBP is not available or when the Enhanced Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation (IBRS) is available. This flaw allows a local attacker to perform a Spectre V2 style attack when this configuration is active. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.

Weaknesses
CWE-440
Expected Behavior Violation
CWE-NVD-noinfo
CVE Status
PUBLISHED
CNA
Red Hat, Inc.
Published Date
2020-09-15 23:15:12
(4 years ago)
Updated Date
2023-11-07 03:14:22
(10 months ago)

Affected Products

Linux

Configuration #1

    CPE23 From Up To
  Linux Kernel prior 5.8.0 version cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel < 5.8.0