CVE-2022-23960

Name
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.
NVD Severity
medium
Other trackers
CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia
Mailing lists
oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq
Exploits
Exploit DB, Metasploit
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
CONFIRM https://developer.arm.com/support/arm-security-updates/speculative-processor-vulnerability
MISC https://developer.arm.com/support/arm-security-updates
MLIST http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/03/18/2
MLIST https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/07/msg00000.html
DEBIAN https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5173

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status
xen 3.12-main 4.13.4-r3 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> fixed