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Medium 4.7CVE-2023-0045 Public exploit
Incorrect indirect branch prediction barrier in the Linux Kernel
The current implementation of the prctl syscall does not issue an IBPB immediately during the syscall. The ib_prctl_set function updates the Thread Information Flags (TIFs) for the task and updates the SPEC_CTRL MSR on the function __speculation_ctrl_update,…
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Medium 5.6CVE-2023-1998 Public exploit
Spectre v2 SMT mitigations problem in Linux kernel
The Linux kernel allows userspace processes to enable mitigations by calling prctl with PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL which disables the speculation feature as well as by using seccomp. We had noticed that on VMs of at least one major cloud provider, the kernel sti…
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Medium 5.3
SACK can cause extensive memory use via fragmented resend queue
Jonathan Looney discovered that the TCP retransmission queue implementation in tcp_fragment in the Linux kernel could be fragmented when handling certain TCP Selective Acknowledgment (SACK) sequences. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of serv…