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CVE-2022-29901

Intel microprocessor generations 6 to 8 are affected by a new Spectre variant that is able to bypass their retpoline mitigation in the kernel to leak arbitrary…

Impact

Intel microprocessor generations 6 to 8 are affected by a new Spectre variant that is able to bypass their retpoline mitigation in the kernel to leak arbitrary data. An attacker with unprivileged user access can hijack return instructions to achieve arbitrary speculative code execution under certain microarchitecture-dependent conditions.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
IntelCore I7-6500u Firmware
All versions
IntelCore I7-6510u Firmware
All versions
IntelCore I7-6560u Firmware
All versions
IntelCore I7-6567u Firmware
All versions
IntelCore I7-6600u Firmware
All versions
IntelCore I7-6650u Firmware
All versions
IntelCore I7-6660u Firmware
All versions
IntelCore I7-6700 Firmware
All versions
IntelCore I7-6700hq Firmware
All versions
IntelCore I7-6700k Firmware
All versions
IntelCore I7-6700t Firmware
All versions
IntelCore I7-6700te Firmware
All versions

Weakness classification

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