From: Nikolay Borisov <nik.borisov@suse.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: cve@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CVE-2024-35802: x86/sev: Fix position dependent variable references in startup code
Date: Thu, 23 May 2024 15:01:56 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5ea91ae6-091d-4378-950b-833561eef48c@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2024052334-cable-serotonin-fa2b@gregkh>
On 23.05.24 г. 14:21 ч., Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> Isn't crashing SEV guests a problem with "availability"? That term
> comes from the CVE definition of what we need to mark as a CVE, which is
> why this one was picked.
But availability has never been one of the tenets of CoCo, in fact in
sev-snp/tdx the VMM is explicitly considered outside of the TCB so
availability cannot be guaranteed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-05-23 12:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <2024051738-CVE-2024-35802-959d@gregkh>
2024-05-23 11:14 ` Nikolay Borisov
2024-05-23 11:21 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2024-05-23 12:01 ` Nikolay Borisov [this message]
2024-05-23 12:17 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2024-05-23 12:21 ` Nikolay Borisov
2024-05-23 12:38 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2024-05-28 8:51 ` Michal Hocko
2024-05-28 19:08 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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