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SWAPGS vulnerability for Intel CPUS

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      Spectre SWAPGS gadget vulnerability (CVE-2019-1125) allows an unprivileged local attacker to bypass conventional memory security restrictions to gain read access to privileged memory that would otherwise be inaccessible.

      At the bottom i present the kernel versions with mitigations for the above vulnerability:

      4.4 >=sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.4.188

      4.9 >=sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.9.188

      4.14 >=sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.9.188

      4.19>=sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.19.65

       

       

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