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Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-28690: Vulnerability in Xen

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-28690: Vulnerability in Xen

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
06/29/2021
Created
04/09/2024
Added
03/26/2024
Modified
04/09/2024

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-xen

References

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