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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2022-29901: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2022-1636)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2022-29901: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2022-1636)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
07/12/2022
Created
02/08/2024
Added
02/06/2024
Modified
02/06/2024

Description

Intel microprocessor generations 6 to 8 are affected by a new Spectre variant that is able to bypass their retpoline mitigation in the kernel to leak arbitrary data. An attacker with unprivileged user access can hijack return instructions to achieve arbitrary speculative code execution under certain microarchitecture-dependent conditions.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel

References

  • ALAS-2022-1636
  • CVE-2022-29901
  • USN-5564-1
  • USN-5565-1
  • USN-5566-1
  • USN-5728-1
  • USN-5728-2
  • USN-5728-3
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