In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ipv4: prevent potential spectre v1 gadget in ipmetricsconvert()
if (!type) continue; if (type > RTAX_MAX) return -EINVAL; ... metrics[type - 1] = val;
@type being used as an array index, we need to prevent cpu speculation or risk leaking kernel memory content.
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"cna_assigner": "Linux",
"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/52xxx/CVE-2023-52997.json"
}