CVE-2023-4155
MEDIUMLinux Kernel - Denial of Service via KVM AMD SEV VMGEXIT Handler Race Condition
Title source: llmDescription
A flaw was found in KVM AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) in the Linux kernel. A KVM guest using SEV-ES or SEV-SNP with multiple vCPUs can trigger a double fetch race condition vulnerability and invoke the `VMGEXIT` handler recursively. If an attacker manages to call the handler multiple times, they can trigger a stack overflow and cause a denial of service or potentially guest-to-host escape in kernel configurations without stack guard pages (`CONFIG_VMAP_STACK`).
References (2)
Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry
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https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4155
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory issue-tracking
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2213802
Scores
CVSS v3
5.3
EPSS
0.0001
EPSS Percentile
2.4%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-367
Status
published
Products (5)
fedoraproject/fedora
37
fedoraproject/fedora
38
linux/linux_kernel
redhat/enterprise_linux
8.0
redhat/enterprise_linux
9.0
Published
Sep 13, 2023
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026