A flaw was found in the fix for CVE-2019-11135, in the Linux upstream kernel versions before 5.5 where, the way Intel CPUs handle speculative execution of instructions when a TSX Asynchronous Abort (TAA) error occurs. When a guest is running on a host CPU affected by the TAA flaw (TAA_NO=0), but is not affected by the MDS issue (MDS_NO=1), the guest was to clear the affected buffers by using a VERW instruction mechanism. But when the MDS_NO=1 bit was exported to the guests, the guests did not use the VERW mechanism to clear the affected buffers. This issue affects guests running on Cascade Lake CPUs and requires that host has 'TSX' enabled. Confidentiality of data is the highest threat associated with this vulnerability.
References
Link | Resource |
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https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/12/10/3 | Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory |
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-19338 | Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory |
https://software.intel.com/security-software-guidance/insights/deep-dive-intel-transactional-synchronization-extensions-intel-tsx-asynchronous-abort | Third Party Advisory |
Information
Published : 2020-07-13 10:15
Updated : 2020-07-21 10:17
NVD link : CVE-2019-19338
Mitre link : CVE-2019-19338
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CWE
CWE-203
Observable Discrepancy
Products Affected
redhat
- enterprise_linux
linux
- linux_kernel