# CVE-2022-29901: Arbitrary Memory Disclosure through CPU Side-Channel Attacks (Retbleed)

- Severity: CVSS 5.6 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2022-07-12 · Updated: 2024-08-03

## Affected

- Intel Intel Microprocessors: generations 6 to 8

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Intel Intel Microprocessors, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://comsec.ethz.ch/retbleed
- https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00702.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/07/12/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/07/12/4
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/07/12/5
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/07/13/1
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/M27MB3QFNIJV4EQQSXWARHP3OGX6CR6K/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/D4RW5FCIYFNCQOEFJEUIRW3DGYW7CWBG/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5207
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00011.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221007-0007/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00034.html
- https://www.secpod.com/blog/retbleed-intel-and-amd-processor-information-disclosure-vulnerability/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-07

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