CVE-2020-10767

Summary

CVECVE-2020-10767
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-09-15 23:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:14:00 UTC
DescriptionA flaw was found in the Linux kernel before 5.8-rc1 in the implementation of the Enhanced IBPB (Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier). The IBPB mitigation will be disabled when STIBP is not available or when the Enhanced Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation (IBRS) is available. This flaw allows a local attacker to perform a Spectre V2 style attack when this configuration is active. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
1845867 – (CVE-2020-10767) CVE-2020-10767 kernel: Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier is force-disabled when STIBP is unavailable or enhanced IBRS is available. CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree MISC git.kernel.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 174729 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2020:2106-1)
  • 352343 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel-livepatch: ALAS2LIVEPATCH-2020-025
  • 353138 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2022-013
  • 377038 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for cloud-kernel (ALINUX2-SA-2020:0198)
  • 750376 OpenSUSE Security Update for RT kernel (openSUSE-SU-2021:0242-1)
  • 900076 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for kernel 5.4.91
  • 903373 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (3463)
  • 906189 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (3463-1)
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