cvelistv5 - cve-2020-36311

cve-2020-36311

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2021-04-06 23:28

Modified

2024-08-04 17:23

Severity ?

Summary

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.9. arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c allows attackers to cause a denial of service (soft lockup) by triggering destruction of a large SEV VM (which requires unregistering many encrypted regions), aka CID-7be74942f184.

References

URL	Tags
cve@mitre.org	https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.9	Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.org	https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=7be74942f184fdfba34ddd19a0d995deb34d4a03	Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.org	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/07/msg00015.html	Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4941	Third Party Advisory

Impacted products

▼	Vendor	Product
	n/a	n/a

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