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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| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed In |
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| intel | core_i7-6500u_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i7-6510u_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i7-6560u_firmware |
Published
CVE disclosed publicly
Last Modified
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AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
154
Affected Products
28
References
intel / core_i7-6500u_firmware
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| intel | core_i7-6567u_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i7-6600u_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i7-6650u_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i7-6660u_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i7-6700_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i7-6700hq_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i7-6700k_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i7-6700t_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i7-6700te_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i7-6770hq_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i7-6820eq_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i7-6820hk_firmware | - | - |
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| intel | core_i7-6822eq_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i7-6870hq_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i7-6920hq_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i7-6970hq_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i7-8550u_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i7-8559u_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i7-8650u_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i7-8700b_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i7-8700k_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i7-8705g_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i7-8706g_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i7-8709g_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i7-8750h_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i7-8809g_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i7-8850h_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i3-6100_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i3-6100e_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i3-6100h_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i3-6100t_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i3-6100te_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i3-6100u_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i3-6102e_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i3-6110u_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i3-6120_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i3-6120t_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i3-6167u_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i3-6300_firmware | - | - |
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| intel | core_i3-8100t_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i3-8109u_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i3-8120_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i3-8130u_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i3-8145u_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i3-8300_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i3-8300t_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i3-8350k_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i5-6200u_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i5-6210u_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i5-6260u_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i5-6267u_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i5-6287u_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i5-6300hq_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i5-6300u_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i5-6310u_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i5-6350hq_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i5-6360u_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i5-6400_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i5-6400t_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i5-6440eq_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i5-6440hq_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i5-6442eq_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i5-6500_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i5-6500t_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i5-6500te_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i5-6600_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i5-6600k_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i5-6600t_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i5-8200y_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i5-8210y_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i5-8250u_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i5-8259u_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i5-8265u_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i5-8269u_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i5-8300h_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i5-8305g_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i5-8310y_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i5-8350u_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i5-8365u_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i5-8400_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i5-8400b_firmware | - | - |
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| intel | core_i5-8400t_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i5-8420_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i5-8420t_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i5-8500_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i5-8500b_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i5-8500t_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i5-8550_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i5-8550u_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i5-8600_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i5-8600k_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i5-8600t_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i5-8650_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i5-8650k_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i7-8500y_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i7-8510y_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i7-8550u_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i7-8557u_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i7-8559u_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i7-8560u_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i7-8565u_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i7-8569u_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i7-8650u_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i7-8665u_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i7-8670_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i7-8670t_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i7-8700_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i7-8700b_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i7-8700t_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i7-8705g_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i7-8706g_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i7-8709g_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i7-8750h_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i7-8750hf_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i7-8809g_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_i9-8950hk_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_m3-6y30_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_m3-8100y_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_m5-6y54_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_m5-6y57_firmware | - | - |
| intel | core_m7-6y75_firmware | - | - |
| fedoraproject | fedora | - | - |
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| xen | xen | - | - |
| vmware | esxi | - | - |
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| debian | debian_linux | - | - |
| debian | debian_linux | - | - |
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
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