FKIE_CVE-2021-28690

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2021-06-29 12:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 03:46
Severity
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Summary
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.
References
security@xen.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-30Third Party Advisory
security@xen.orghttps://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-377.txtPatch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-30Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-377.txtPatch, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
xen xen *
xen xen 4.15.0
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