Vigil@nce - Linux kernel: information disclosure via KVM Missing TLB Flushes
February 2020 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Linux.
Severity: 1/4.
Consequences: data reading.
Provenance: user shell.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 31/01/2020.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
A local attacker, inside a guest system, can read a memory
fragment via KVM Missing TLB Flushes of the Linux kernel, in order
to obtain sensitive information on the host system.
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