CVE-2022-23960

Description

Certain Arm Cortex and Neoverse processors through 2022-03-08 do not properly restrict cache speculation, aka Spectre-BHB. An attacker can leverage the shared branch history in the Branch History Buffer (BHB) to influence mispredicted branches. Then, cache allocation can allow the attacker to obtain sensitive information.

Predictions

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

References

• https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2022:7683
• https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-23960.html
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-23960
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:7683
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1946279
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1980646
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2037386
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2051444
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2053632
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2058395
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2059928
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2062284
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2066614
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2066706
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2069408
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2070205
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2070220
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2073064
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2074208
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2084183
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2084479
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2088021
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2089815
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2096178
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2112693

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