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CVE-2021-26342

UNKNOWN
Published 2022-05-11T16:21:04.403325Z
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Description

In SEV guest VMs, the CPU may fail to flush the Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB) following a particular sequence of operations that includes creation of a new virtual machine control block (VMCB). The failure to flush the TLB may cause the microcode to use stale TLB translations which may allow for disclosure of SEV guest memory contents. Users of SEV-ES/SEV-SNP guest VMs are not impacted by this vulnerability.

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⚠ Unreviewed LOW

GHSA-wp53-p3r5-cq4w

Advisory Details

In SEV guest VMs, the CPU may fail to flush the Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB) following a particular sequence of operations that includes creation of a new virtual machine control block (VMCB). The failure to flush the TLB may cause the microcode to use stale TLB translations which may allow for disclosure of SEV guest memory contents. Users of SEV-ES/SEV-SNP guest VMs are not impacted by this vulnerability.

CVSS Scoring

CVSS Score

2.5

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: May 12, 2022, Modified: May 20, 2022

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Published: 2022-05-11T16:21:04.403325Z
Last Modified: 2024-09-16T16:32:42.078Z
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