Branch target injection vulnerability - CVE-2017-5715ID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:43376 | Date: (C)2018-01-05 (M)2024-04-17 |
Class: VULNERABILITY | Family: windows |
An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of instructions (a commonly used performance optimization). There are three primary variants of the issue which differ in the way the speculative execution can be exploited. Variant CVE-2017-5715 triggers the speculative execution by utilizing branch target injection. It relies on the presence of a precisely-defined instruction sequence in the privileged code as well as the fact that memory accesses may cause allocation into the microprocessor's data cache even for speculatively executed instructions that never actually commit (retire). As a result, an unprivileged attacker could use this flaw to cross the syscall and guest/host boundaries and read privileged memory by conducting targeted cache side-channel attacks.
Platform: |
Microsoft Windows 11 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2022 |
Microsoft Windows 10 |
Microsoft Windows 7 |
Microsoft Windows 8 |
Microsoft Windows 8.1 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2016 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 |
Microsoft Windows Vista |
Microsoft Windows XP |
Product: |
Mozilla Firefox |
VMware Player |
VMware Workstation |
Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 |
Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 |
Microsoft Edge |
Microsoft SQL Server 2016 |
Microsoft SQL Server 2017 |
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 |
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 |
Oracle VM VirtualBox |