CVE-2022-29901: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

  • Debian Debian Linux: version 10.0 only; version 11.0 only
  • Fedoraproject Fedora: version 35 only; version 36 only
  • Intel Core i3-6100 Firmware: affected versions not specified
  • Intel Core i3-6100e Firmware: affected versions not specified
  • Intel Core i3-6100h Firmware: affected versions not specified
  • Intel Core i3-6100t Firmware: affected versions not specified
  • Intel Core i3-6100te Firmware: affected versions not specified
  • Intel Core i3-6100u Firmware: affected versions not specified
  • Intel Core i3-6102e Firmware: affected versions not specified
  • Intel Core i3-6110u Firmware: affected versions not specified
  • Intel Core i3-6120 Firmware: affected versions not specified
  • Intel Core i3-6120t Firmware: affected versions not specified
  • Intel Core i3-6167u Firmware: affected versions not specified
  • Intel Core i3-6300 Firmware: affected versions not specified
  • Intel Core i3-6300t Firmware: affected versions not specified
  • Intel Core i3-6320 Firmware: affected versions not specified
  • Intel Core i3-6320t Firmware: affected versions not specified
  • Intel Core i3-8000 Firmware: affected versions not specified
  • Intel Core i3-8000t Firmware: affected versions not specified
  • Intel Core i3-8020 Firmware: affected versions not specified
  • Intel Core i3-8100 Firmware: affected versions not specified
  • Intel Core i3-8100h Firmware: affected versions not specified
  • Intel Core i3-8100t Firmware: affected versions not specified
  • Intel Core i3-8109u Firmware: affected versions not specified
  • Intel Core i3-8120 Firmware: affected versions not specified
  • and 104 more

Published 2022-07-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.