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Debian 10 Buster DLA-3525-1 Critical: Gather Data Sampling & INCEPTION

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Calendar Grey August 11, 2023
Dist Debian Esm H88
Important security patch for linux-5.10 released to mitigate Gather Data Sampling and INCEPTION flaws on Debian 10.
CVE-2022-40982 Daniel Moghimi discovered Gather Data Sampling (GDS), a hardware vulnerability for Intel CPUs which allows unprivileged speculative

Summary

Daniel Moghimi discovered Gather Data Sampling (GDS), a hardware
vulnerability for Intel CPUs which allows unprivileged speculative
access to data which was previously stored in vector registers.

This mitigation requires updated CPU microcode provided in the
intel-microcode package.

For details please refer to and
.

CVE-2023-20569

Daniel Trujillo, Johannes Wikner and Kaveh Razavi discovered
INCEPTION, also known as Speculative Return Stack Overflow (SRSO),
a transient execution attack that leaks arbitrary data on all AMD
Zen CPUs. An attacker can mis-train the CPU BTB to predict non-
architectural CALL instructions in kernel space and use this to
control the speculative target of a subsequent kernel RET,
potentially leading to information disclosure via a speculative
side-channel.

For details please refer to
and
.

For Debian 10 buster, these problems have been fixed in version
5.10.179-5~deb10u1.

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Package: linux-5.10
Version: 5.10.179-5~deb10u1
CVE ID: CVE-2022-40982 CVE-2023-20569

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