Security Advisory

CVE-2020-10768

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2020-09-15 23:13:30

Last updated 2024-08-04 11:14:15

Assigner redhat

State PUBLISHED

Description

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.

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