CVE-2024-35996 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2024-35996

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

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Linux
Vulnerable Versions:
30da4180fd768973189dc364648f9c436e57b01d, 70688450dddaf91e12fd4fc625da3297025932c9, 9c09773917fbb77dff85b433e1e89123fc5fb530, 2978ee7c973ce81b6e51100ba1e5ae001af624b9, c4a9babdd5d5a41a74269a2e1aa1647b1b4c45bb, f337a6a21e2fd67eadea471e93d05dd37baaa9be, 5.15.156, 6.1.87, 6.6.28, 6.8.7

Timeline

Official Publish: May 20th, 2024
Last Modified: May 12th, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

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Weaknesses (CWE)

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MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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