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Tracker / CVE-2018-15594

CVE-2018-15594

Medium 5.5

arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c in the Linux kernel before 4.18.1 mishandles certain indirect calls, which makes it easier for attackers to conduct Spectre-v2 attacks against paravirtual guests.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
debian debian_linux
linux linux_kernel · … → 4.18.1

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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