CVE-2023-34320 (GCVE-0-2023-34320)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-12-08 20:54 – Updated: 2025-11-04 19:16
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
arm: Guests can trigger a deadlock on Cortex-A77
Summary
Cortex-A77 cores (r0p0 and r1p0) are affected by erratum 1508412
where software, under certain circumstances, could deadlock a core
due to the execution of either a load to device or non-cacheable memory,
and either a store exclusive or register read of the Physical
Address Register (PAR_EL1) in close proximity.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Date Public
2023-08-01 14:44
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