CVE-2023-4155
CVSS 3.1 Score 5.3 of 10 (medium)
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Summary
CVE-2023-4155 is a vulnerability found in KVM AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) in the Linux kernel. It affects KVM guests using SEV-ES or SEV-SNP with multiple vCPUs. The vulnerability allows an attacker to trigger a double fetch race condition, leading to the recursive invocation of the `VMGEXIT` handler. If exploited successfully, this can result in a stack overflow and cause a denial of service or potentially enable guest-to-host escape in kernel configurations without stack guard pages (`CONFIG_VMAP_STACK`). The vulnerability has a base severity of MEDIUM with a CVSS score of 5.3 and requires high privileges to be exploited. To mitigate this vulnerability, users should apply relevant patches and updates provided by their respective vendors.
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