CVE-2022-27672

Public on 2023-02-20
Modified on 2024-03-01
Description
It has been discovered that on some AMD CPUs, the RAS (Return Address Stack, also called RAP - Return Address Predictor - in some AMD documentation, and RSB - Return Stack Buffer - in Intel terminology) is dynamically partitioned between non-idle threads. This allows an attacker to control speculative execution on the adjacent thread.
Severity
Medium severity
Medium
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.6
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 kernel Not Affected
Amazon Linux 2 - Core kernel Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2 - Kernel-5.10 Extra kernel 2023-03-17 ALAS2KERNEL-5.10-2023-028 Fixed
Amazon Linux 2 - Kernel-5.15 Extra kernel 2023-03-17 ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2023-015 Fixed
Amazon Linux 2 - Kernel-5.4 Extra kernel 2023-03-17 ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2023-043 Fixed
Amazon Linux 2023 kernel 2023-03-11 ALAS2023-2023-132 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 5.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 4.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N