MediumFix available
xen — security advisory
When SMT is enabled, certain AMD processors may speculatively execute instructions using a target from the sibling thread after an SMT mode switch potentially resulting in information disclosure.
- Products
- xen
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 4.16.4-r0, 4.17.0-r2
- CVEs
- CVE-2022-27672
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 30 Oct 2026, 14:11 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
When SMT is enabled, certain AMD processors may speculatively execute instructions using a target from the sibling thread after an SMT mode switch potentially resulting in information disclosure.
osv:ALPINE-CVE-2022-27672
xen
Fixed versions: 4.16.4-r0
xen
Fixed versions: 4.16.4-r0
xen
Fixed versions: 4.17.0-r2
xen
Fixed versions: 4.17.0-r2
xen
Fixed versions: 4.17.0-r2
xen
Fixed versions: 4.17.0-r2
xen
Fixed versions: 4.17.0-r2
xen
Fixed versions: 4.17.0-r2
xen
Fixed versions: 4.17.0-r2
Complete source record
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