CVE-2021-28690

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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Description

x86: 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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
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Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`4.14.2+25-gb6a8c4f72d-1`
sid	Fixed	`4.14.2+25-gb6a8c4f72d-1`
forky	Fixed	`4.14.2+25-gb6a8c4f72d-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`4.14.2+25-gb6a8c4f72d-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`4.14.2+25-gb6a8c4f72d-1`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.