Vulnerability CVE-2023-4155


Published: 2023-09-13   Modified: 2023-09-14

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`).

 References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4155
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2213802

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