Security Advisory

CVE-2022-42331

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2023-03-21 00:00:00
Last updated 2025-02-13 16:33:19
Assigner XEN
State PUBLISHED

Description

x86: speculative vulnerability in 32bit SYSCALL path Due to an oversight in the very original Spectre/Meltdown security work (XSA-254), one entrypath performs its speculation-safety actions too late. In some configurations, there is an unprotected RET instruction which can be attacked with a variety of speculative attacks.