cve-2019-3016
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-01-31 19:50
Modified
2024-09-30 15:47
Severity ?
6.2 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Summary
In a Linux KVM guest that has PV TLB enabled, a process in the guest kernel may be able to read memory locations from another process in the same guest. This problem is limit to the host running linux kernel 4.10 with a guest running linux kernel 4.16 or later. The problem mainly affects AMD processors but Intel CPUs cannot be ruled out.
References
secalert_us@oracle.comhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157233/Kernel-Live-Patch-Security-Notice-LSN-0065-1.html
secalert_us@oracle.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/01/30/4Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert_us@oracle.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1792167Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert_us@oracle.comhttps://git.kernel.org/linus/1eff70a9abd46f175defafd29bc17ad456f398a7Patch, Vendor Advisory
secalert_us@oracle.comhttps://git.kernel.org/linus/8c6de56a42e0c657955e12b882a81ef07d1d073ePatch, Vendor Advisory
secalert_us@oracle.comhttps://git.kernel.org/linus/917248144db5d7320655dbb41d3af0b8a0f3d589Patch, Vendor Advisory
secalert_us@oracle.comhttps://git.kernel.org/linus/a6bd811f1209fe1c64c9f6fd578101d6436c6b6ePatch, Vendor Advisory
secalert_us@oracle.comhttps://git.kernel.org/linus/b043138246a41064527cf019a3d51d9f015e9796Patch, Vendor Advisory
secalert_us@oracle.comhttps://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1580407316-11391-1-git-send-email-pbonzini%40redhat.com/
secalert_us@oracle.comhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200313-0003/
secalert_us@oracle.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4300-1/
secalert_us@oracle.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4301-1/
secalert_us@oracle.comhttps://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4699
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