CVE-2024-35996

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 6.6.37

Description The issue is related to CPU mitigations in the Linux kernel. A recent commit missed that "cpu mitigations" is completely generic, whereas SPECULATION MITIGATIONS is x86-specific. This led to unnecessary confusion. The mitigation has been re-enabled by default for non-X86 architectures. The change allows x86 to use a single configuration for managing mitigations not strictly related to speculative execution.

Recommendations Update to Linux kernel version 6.6.37 or later to resolve the issue.