Security Advisory

CVE-2018-15572

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2018-08-20 02:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 10:01:54
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

The spectre_v2_select_mitigation function in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c in the Linux kernel before 4.18.1 does not always fill RSB upon a context switch, which makes it easier for attackers to conduct userspace-userspace spectreRSB attacks.