{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2018-08-03T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: Mishandling of indirect calls weakens Spectre mitigation for paravirtual guests",
    "id" : "1620555",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1620555"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "5.6",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-200",
  "details" : [ "arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c in the Linux kernel before 4.18.1 mishandles certain indirect calls, which makes it easier for attackers to conduct Spectre-v2 attacks against paravirtual guests.", "It was found that paravirt_patch_call/jump() functions in the arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c in the Linux kernel mishandles certain indirect calls, which makes it easier for attackers to conduct Spectre-v2 attacks against paravirtualized guests." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "release_date" : "2019-08-07T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2019:2043",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_extras_rt:7",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:3.10.0-1062.rt56.1022.el7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "release_date" : "2019-08-06T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2019:2029",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7",
    "package" : "kernel-0:3.10.0-1062.el7"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "kernel-alt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "realtime-kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_mrg:2"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-15594\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-15594" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2018-15594",
  "csaw" : false
}