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CVE-2022-23824

Description

A flaw was found in hw. The AMD CPUs can be attacked similar to the previously known Spectre Variant 2 (CVE-2017-5715). This issue affects AMD CPUs where the OS relies on IBPB to flush the return address predictor. As a result, an unprivileged attacker could use this flaw to cross the syscall and guest/host boundaries and read privileged memory by conducting targeted cache side-channel attacks. #### Mitigation Please see the vulnerability response article for the full list of updates available and a detailed discussion of this issue, which compares the existing mitigation for CVE-2022-23816 and CVE-2022-29900, mentioning Mitigation V2-3 of Software Techniques for Managing Speculation.pdf, and a suggests that Hypervisor and OS vendors review their usages of IBPB.


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