CVE-2022-23960

Description

Certain Arm Cortex and Neoverse processors through 2022-03-08 do not properly restrict cache speculation, aka Spectre-BHB. An attacker can leverage the shared branch history in the Branch History Buffer (BHB) to influence mispredicted branches. Then, cache allocation can allow the attacker to obtain sensitive information.

Weakness classification

• nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-noinfo

Primary references

• cve@mitre.org — Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Vendor Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Mitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Vendor Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Mitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Third Party Advisory