CVE-2024-35996 Information

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 ## Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/af6d6a923b40bf6471e44067ac61cc5814b48e7f https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/36b32816fbab267611f073223f1b0b816ec5920f https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/38f17d1fbb5bfb56ca1419e2d06376d57a9396f9 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8292f4f8dd1b005d0688d726261004f816ef730a https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fd8547ebc187037cc69441a15c1441aeaab80f49 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe42754b94a42d08cf9501790afc25c4f6a5f631