CVE-2021-28690

Publication date

2021-06-29 11:16:36

Family

XEN

State

PUBLISHED

Description

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 isnt restored after S3 suspend.