Threats tagged 'ghsa-jxv8-jmp2-87p8'

CVE-2024-42240 is a medium severity vulnerability in the Linux kernel related to the x86 architecture's Branch History Injection (BHI) mitigation. When BHI mitigation is enabled, invoking SYSENTER with the Trap Flag (TF) set causes a warning in the #DB handler due to improper ordering of clearing the branch history and the TF flag. This leads to a kernel warning and a segmentation fault when triggered by a crafted program.