CVE-2023-4155

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel - Denial of Service via KVM AMD SEV VMGEXIT Handler Race Condition

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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 x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4155
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory issue-tracking x_refsource_redhat
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