CVE-2021-28690

Summary

CVECVE-2021-28690
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-06-29 12:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-09-21 16:13:00 UTC
Descriptionx86: 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Xen Xen All All All All
Operating System Xen Xen 4.15.0 rc1 All All
Operating System Xen Xen All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Xen: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 202107-30) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-377.txt MISC xenbits.xenproject.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: Array

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 178672 Debian Security Update for xen (DSA 4931-1)
  • 179562 Debian Security Update for xen (CVE-2021-28690)
  • 281644 Fedora Security Update for xen (FEDORA-2021-993693c914)
  • 281645 Fedora Security Update for xen (FEDORA-2021-41d4347447)
  • 390221 Oracle Managed Virtualization (VM) Server for x86 Security Update for xen (OVMSA-2021-0020)
  • 390231 Oracle Managed Virtualization (VM) Server for x86 Security Update for xen (OVMSA-2021-0020)
  • 500800 Alpine Linux Security Update for xen
  • 501518 Alpine Linux Security Update for xen
  • 501796 Alpine Linux Security Update for xen
  • 504543 Alpine Linux Security Update for xen
  • 710038 Gentoo Linux Xen Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 202107-30)
  • 751074 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for xen (SUSE-SU-2021:2925-1)
  • 751083 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for xen (SUSE-SU-2021:2924-1)
  • 751085 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for xen (SUSE-SU-2021:2943-1)
  • 751087 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for xen (SUSE-SU-2021:2955-1)
  • 751100 OpenSUSE Security Update for xen (openSUSE-SU-2021:2923-1)
  • 751103 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for xen (SUSE-SU-2021:2957-1)
  • 751111 OpenSUSE Security Update for xen (openSUSE-SU-2021:1236-1)
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