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Medium severity5.6NVD Advisory· Published Jul 12, 2022· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2022-29901

CVE-2022-29901

Description

Intel microprocessor generations 6 to 8 are affected by a new Spectre variant that is able to bypass their retpoline mitigation in the kernel to leak arbitrary data. An attacker with unprivileged user access can hijack return instructions to achieve arbitrary speculative code execution under certain microarchitecture-dependent conditions.

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