medium6.5
CVE-2021-28690
x86: TSX Async Abort protections not restored after S3 This issue relates to the TSX Async Abort speculative security vulnerability.
Impact
x86: TSX Async Abort protections not restored after S3 This issue relates to the TSX Async Abort speculative security vulnerability. Please see https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-305.html for details. Mitigating TAA by disabling TSX (the default and preferred option) requires selecting a non-default setting in MSR_TSX_CTRL. This setting isn't restored after S3 suspend.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Xen | Xen | from 4.12 through 4.15.0 Version 4.15.0 |