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CVE-2020-10768

CVSS v3.1 5.5 (Medium)
55% Progress
CVSS v2.0 2.1 (Low)
21% Progress
EPSS 0.04 % (13th)
0.04% Progress
Affected Products 1
Advisories 33
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A flaw was found in the Linux Kernel before 5.8-rc1 in the prctl() function, where it can be used to enable indirect branch speculation after it has been disabled. This call incorrectly reports it as being 'force disabled' when it is not and opens the system to Spectre v2 attacks. 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
2020-09-16 00:15:11
(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