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CVE-2022-42331

Xen / xen PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Xen / xenunknown consult Xen advisory XSA-429

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

References

ADP enrichment

CVE

No English description supplied.