Information disclosure

Execution unit scheduler contention may lead to a side channel vulnerability found on AMD CPU microarchitectures codenamed “Zen 1”, “Zen 2” and “Zen 3” that use simultaneous multithreading SMT. By measuring the contention level on scheduler queues an attacker may potentially leak sensitive...

CVE-2021-46778

CVE-2021-46778 describes an information-disclosure side-channel vulnerability in AMD CPUs with SMT (Zen 1–Zen 4). The root cause is execution unit scheduler contention on SMT-enabled cores, allowing an attacker to infer data by measuring scheduler-queue contention. Public documents identify affec...

Execution Unit Scheduler Contention Side-Channel Vulnerability on AMD Processors

Bulletin ID: AMD-SB-1039 Potential Impact: Information Disclosure Severity: Medium Summary Execution unit scheduler contention may lead to a side channel vulnerability found on AMD CPU microarchitectures codenamed “Zen 1”, “Zen 2”, “Zen 3” and “Zen 4” that use simultaneous multithreading SMT. By...

PT-2022-12915 · Amd · Amd Zen 1 +2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: AMD CPU microarchitectures codenamed “Zen 1”, “Zen 2” and “Zen 3” that use simultaneous multithreading SMT Description: The issue is related to execution unit scheduler contention, which may lead to a side channel vulnerability. By measuring...

Vulnerabilities fixed in Citrix Hypervisor

Vulnerabilities have been fixed in Citrix Hypervisor and Citrix XenServer. The vulnerabilities potentially enable a malicious party to able to derive memory content from another virtual machine. These vulnerabilities are only present when the vulnerable products are used on AMD Zen 1 or AMD Zen 2...