| Name | CVE-2022-29901 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-3102-1, DLA-3245-1, DSA-5207-1, ELA-676-1, ELA-776-1 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 3.16.84-1 | vulnerable |
| stretch (security) | 4.9.320-2 | vulnerable | |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 4.9.320-3 | vulnerable | |
| buster | 4.19.249-2 | vulnerable | |
| buster (security) | 4.19.304-1 | fixed | |
| bullseye | 5.10.209-2 | fixed | |
| bullseye (security) | 5.10.205-2 | fixed | |
| bookworm | 6.1.76-1 | fixed | |
| bookworm (security) | 6.1.85-1 | fixed | |
| trixie | 6.6.15-2 | fixed | |
| sid | 6.7.9-2 | fixed | |
| linux-4.19 (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 4.19.304-1~deb8u1 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 4.19.232-1~deb9u1 | vulnerable | |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 4.19.304-1~deb9u1 | fixed | |
| linux-5.10 (PTS) | stretch (lts), stretch | 5.10.209-2~deb9u1 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 5.10.209-2~deb10u1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| linux | source | jessie | (unfixed) | end-of-life | ||
| linux | source | stretch | (unfixed) | end-of-life | ||
| linux | source | buster | 4.19.269-1 | DLA-3245-1 | ||
| linux | source | bullseye | 5.10.136-1 | DSA-5207-1 | ||
| linux | source | (unstable) | 5.18.14-1 | |||
| linux-4.19 | source | jessie | 4.19.269-1~deb8u1 | ELA-776-1 | ||
| linux-4.19 | source | stretch | 4.19.269-1~deb9u1 | ELA-776-1 | ||
| linux-5.10 | source | stretch | 5.10.136-1~deb9u1 | ELA-676-1 | ||
| linux-5.10 | source | buster | 5.10.136-1~deb10u1 | DLA-3102-1 |
https://comsec.ethz.ch/research/microarch/retbleed/
https://comsec.ethz.ch/wp-content/files/retbleed_sec22.pdf
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00702.html