Information Exposure Affecting kernel-rt-devel package, versions <0:4.18.0-372.32.1.rt7.189.el8_6


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (25th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-KERNELRTDEVEL-4356389
  • published26 Oct 2022
  • disclosed12 Jul 2022

Introduced: 12 Jul 2022

CVE-2022-29900  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)
First added by Snyk

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 kernel-rt-devel to version 0:4.18.0-372.32.1.rt7.189.el8_6 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2022:7134.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-rt-devel package and not the kernel-rt-devel package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

Mis-trained branch predictions for return instructions may allow arbitrary speculative code execution under certain microarchitecture-dependent conditions.

CVSS Scores

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