CVE-2023-5370CWE-665

CVE-2023-5370: vulnerability in FreeBSD

arm64 boot CPUs may lack speculative execution protections

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3Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackepss 0.2%
On CPU 0 the check for the SMCCC workaround is called before SMCCC support has been initialized. This resulted in no speculative execution workarounds being installed on CPU 0.
Affected products
FreeBSD · FreeBSD
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