A regression exists in the Linux Kernel within KVM: nVMX that allowed for speculative execution attacks. L2 can carry out Spectre v2 attacks on L1 due to L1 thinking it doesn't need retpolines or IBPB after running L2 due to KVM (L0) advertising eIBRS support to L1. An attacker at L2 with code execution can execute code on an indirect branch on the host machine. We recommend upgrading to Kernel 6.2 or past commit 2e7eab81425a
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Description A regression exists in the Linux Kernel within KVM: nVMX that allowed for speculative execution attacks. L2 can carry out Spectre v2 attacks on L1 due to L1 thinking it doesn't need retpolines or IBPB after running L2 due to KVM (L0) advertising eIBRS support to L1. An attacker at L2 with code execution can execute code on an indirect branch on the host machine. We recommend upgrading to Kernel 6.2 or past commit 2e7eab81425a A regression exists in the Linux Kernel within KVM: nVMX that allowed for speculative execution attacks. L2 can carry out Spectre v2 attacks on L1 due to L1 thinking it doesn't need retpolines or IBPB after running L2 due to KVM (L0) advertising eIBRS support to L1. An attacker at L2 with code execution can execute code on an indirect branch on the host machine. We recommend upgrading to Kernel 6.2 or past commit 2e7eab81425a

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Google

Published:

Updated: 2025-02-13T16:28:57.097Z

Reserved: 2022-06-24T13:29:09.969Z

Link: CVE-2022-2196

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T00:32:08.645Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-01-09T11:15:10.583

Modified: 2025-02-13T17:15:40.357

Link: CVE-2022-2196

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2022-09-28T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2022-2196 - Bugzilla