CVE-2021-46778

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Aug 9, 2022
Updated
Sep 17, 2024
Reserved
Mar 31, 2022

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Description

Execution unit scheduler contention may lead to a side channel vulnerability found on AMD CPU microarchitectures codenamed “Zen 1”, “Zen 2” and “Zen 3” that use simultaneous multithreading (SMT). By measuring the contention level on scheduler queues an attacker may potentially leak sensitive information.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
AMD ProcessorsAMD
  • Processor Some AMD ProcessorsAffected

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