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Zenbleed: AMD Zen2 CPU's potential access to sensitive information

High
frezbo published GHSA-4ffv-x7jf-cv68 Jul 26, 2023

Package

No package listed

Affected versions

< 1.4.6

Patched versions

>= 1.4.7

Description

Impact

An use-after-free issue in AMD Zen 2 CPU's, under specific microarchitectural circumstances, may allow an attacker to potentially access sensitive information.

Patches

AMD has released microcode updates for some of the affected CPU's. Talos would be shipping 6.1.41 version of the upstream Linux kernel (6.1 is the upstream Kernel long term version Talos ships with). Talos >= v1.4.7 is shipped with Linux Kernel 6.1.41 providing a software workaround by setting the chicken bit where firmware microcode fix is not available yet.

Talos extension update for AMD ucode version contains microcode updates for ZenBleed.

Workarounds

All users running Talos with un-trusted or shared workloads on affected AMD CPU's must upgrade based on the threat model.

References

Severity

High

CVE ID

CVE-2023-20593

Weaknesses

No CWEs