vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2023-4155: kernel: KVM: SEV-ES / SEV-SNP VMGEXIT double fetch vulnerability (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Sep 13, 2023
Added
Nov 8, 2023
Modified
Mar 11, 2025

Description

A flaw was found in KVM AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) in the Linux kernel. A KVM guest using SEV-ES or SEV-SNP with multiple vCPUs can trigger a double fetch race condition vulnerability and invoke the `VMGEXIT` handler recursively. If an attacker manages to call the handler multiple times, they can trigger a stack overflow and cause a denial of service or potentially guest-to-host escape in kernel configurations without stack guard pages (`CONFIG_VMAP_STACK`).

Solution(s)

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