CVE-2024-35996

cpu: Re-enable CPU mitigations by default for !X86 architectures

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
May 20, 2024
Updated
Oct 15, 2026
Reserved
May 17, 2024

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

cpu: Re-enable CPU mitigations by default for !X86 architectures

Rename x86's to CPU_MITIGATIONS, define it in generic code, and force it on for all architectures exception x86. A recent commit to turn mitigations off by default if SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS=n kinda sorta missed that "cpu_mitigations" is completely generic, whereas SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS is x86-specific.

Rename x86's SPECULATIVE_MITIGATIONS instead of keeping both and have it select CPU_MITIGATIONS, as having two configs for the same thing is unnecessary and confusing. This will also allow x86 to use the knob to manage mitigations that aren't strictly related to speculative execution.

Use another Kconfig to communicate to common code that CPU_MITIGATIONS is already defined instead of having x86's menu depend on the common CPU_MITIGATIONS. This allows keeping a single point of contact for all of x86's mitigations, and it's not clear that other architectures *want* to allow disabling mitigations at compile-time.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 30da4180fd768973189dc364648f9c436e57b01d to before af6d6a923b40bf6471e44067ac61cc5814b48e7fAffected
  • 70688450dddaf91e12fd4fc625da3297025932c9 to before 36b32816fbab267611f073223f1b0b816ec5920fAffected
  • 9c09773917fbb77dff85b433e1e89123fc5fb530 to before 38f17d1fbb5bfb56ca1419e2d06376d57a9396f9Affected
  • 2978ee7c973ce81b6e51100ba1e5ae001af624b9 to before 8292f4f8dd1b005d0688d726261004f816ef730aAffected
  • c4a9babdd5d5a41a74269a2e1aa1647b1b4c45bb to before fd8547ebc187037cc69441a15c1441aeaab80f49Affected
  • f337a6a21e2fd67eadea471e93d05dd37baaa9be to before fe42754b94a42d08cf9501790afc25c4f6a5f631Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.15.156 to before 5.15.158Affected
  • 6.1.87 to before 6.1.90Affected
  • 6.6.28 to before 6.6.30Affected
  • 6.8.7 to before 6.8.9Affected

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