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CVE-2021-28690

Xen / xen PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Xen / xenunknown unspecified before 4.12; affected 4.13.x before unspecified; unaffected next of xen-unstable before unspecified
Xen / xenaffected 4.12.x
Xen / xenaffected 4.11.x

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

References

ADP enrichment

CVE

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