Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-46836

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - The fixes for XSA-422 Branch Type Confusion and XSA-434 Speculative Return Stack Overflow are not IRQ- safe. It was believed that the mitigations always operate...

CVE-2023-46836

The fixes for XSA-422 Branch Type Confusion and XSA-434 Speculative Return Stack Overflow are not IRQ-safe. It was believed that the mitigations always operated in contexts with IRQs disabled. However, the original XSA-254 fix for Meltdown XPTI deliberately left interrupts enabled on two entry...