Vulnerability · NVD

CVE-2020-10766

MEDIUM 5.5 Published on 2020-09-08

A logic bug flaw was found in Linux kernel before 5.8-rc1 in the implementation of SSBD. A bug in the logic handling allows an attacker with a local account to disable SSBD protection during a context switch when additional speculative execution mitigations are in place. This issue was introduced when the per task/process conditional STIPB switching was added on top of the existing SSBD switching. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.

EPSS 0.08% exploit very unlikely percentile 24.0%

OS versions that fix this CVE

This CVE is resolved by the following OS security releases. Update the OS to at least the listed version.

Android Fixed in January 2021 patch level

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