CVE-2021-28690 (GCVE-0-2021-28690)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-06-29 11:16 – Updated: 2024-08-03 21:47
VLAI
Summary
x86: TSX Async Abort protections not restored after S3 This issue relates to the TSX Async Abort speculative security vulnerability. Please see https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-305.html for details. Mitigating TAA by disabling TSX (the default and preferred option) requires selecting a non-default setting in MSR_TSX_CTRL. This setting isn't restored after S3 suspend.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • unknown
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-377.txt x_refsource_MISC
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-30 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Xen xen Unknown: unspecified , < 4.12 (custom)
Affected: 4.13.x , < unspecified (custom)
Unaffected: next of xen-unstable , < unspecified (custom)
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Xen xen Affected: 4.12.x
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Xen xen Affected: 4.11.x
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Credits
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