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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.

🗓️ 25 Sep 2020 07:00:00Reported by MicrosoftType 
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CVE provided fix flaw affects Linux kernels before 5.5, where Cascade Lake guests may skip VERW buffer clearing when memory data sampling bits are exported, risking confidentiality.

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25 Sep 2020 07:00Current
7High risk
Vulners AI Score7
CVSS 22.1
CVSS 3.15.5 - 6.5
CVSS 35.5
EPSS0.03133
SSVC
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