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FreeBSD -- arm64 boot CPUs may lack speculative execution protections

Affected packages
13.2	<=	FreeBSD-kernel	<	13.2_4

Details

VuXML ID	162a675b-6251-11ee-8e38-002590c1f29c
Discovery	2023-10-03
Entry	2023-10-04

Problem Description:

On CPU 0 the check for the SMCCC workaround is called before SMCCC support has been initialized.

Impact:

No speculative execution workarounds are installed on CPU 0.

References

CVE Name	CVE-2023-5370
FreeBSD Advisory	SA-23:14.smccc

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