CVE-2023-4155
Public on 2023-08-07
Modified on 2024-02-27
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`).
Severity
CVSS v3 Base Score
See breakdown
Affected Packages
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory | Status |
---|---|---|---|---|
Amazon Linux 1 | kernel | Not Affected | ||
Amazon Linux 2 - Core | kernel | Not Affected | ||
Amazon Linux 2 - Kernel-5.10 Extra | kernel | Not Affected | ||
Amazon Linux 2 - Kernel-5.15 Extra | kernel | Not Affected | ||
Amazon Linux 2 - Kernel-5.4 Extra | kernel | Not Affected | ||
Amazon Linux 2023 | kernel | Not Affected |
CVSS Scores
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
---|---|---|---|
Amazon Linux | CVSSv3 | 5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H |
NVD | CVSSv3 | 5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H |