CVE-2020-10766
5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Summary
A logic bug flaw was found in Linux kernel before 5.8-rc1 in the implementation of SSBD. A bug in the logic handling allows an attacker with a local account to disable SSBD protection during a context switch when additional speculative execution mitigations are in place. This issue was introduced when the per task/process conditional STIPB switching was added on top of the existing SSBD switching. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Version Range | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linux Kernel | kernel | before 5.8-rc1 | affected |
Weaknesses
- CWE-440: CWE-440
ADP Enrichment
CVE Program Container
Additional References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10766
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=dbbe2ad02e9df26e372f38cc3e70dab9222c832e
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10766
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=dbbe2ad02e9df26e372f38cc3e70dab9222c832e
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