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CVE-2023-4155

A flaw was found in KVM AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) in the Linux kernel. A KVM guest using SEV-ES or SEV-S

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).

MEDIUM · CVSS 5.3 EPSS 0.00013
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Affected Products & Versions

3
linux kernelall versions

Scoring & Timeline

5.3
MEDIUM · CVSS v3.1 · secalert@redhat.com
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Attack Vector
Network Adjacent Local Physical
Attack Complexity
Low High
Privileges Required
None Low High
User Interaction
None Required
Scope
Unchanged Changed
Confidentiality
None Low High
Integrity
None Low High
Availability
None Low High
Published to NVD13 Sep 2023 · 05:15 PM
CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
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Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
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Vendor Advisories

21
rhsaRHSA-2023:6583Moderate
rhsaRHSA-2023:7077Moderate
rhsaRHSA-2024:4740Moderate
rhsaRHSA-2024:3859Moderate
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2023:4071-1
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References & Sources

2
Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2213802Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
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