CVE-2023-52874

x86/tdx: Zero out the missing RSI in TDX_HYPERCALL macro

State
Published
Severity
7.1 High
Published
May 21, 2024
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
May 21, 2024

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

x86/tdx: Zero out the missing RSI in TDX_HYPERCALL macro

In the TDX_HYPERCALL asm, after the TDCALL instruction returns from the untrusted VMM, the registers that the TDX guest shares to the VMM need to be cleared to avoid speculative execution of VMM-provided values.

RSI is specified in the bitmap of those registers, but it is missing when zeroing out those registers in the current TDX_HYPERCALL.

It was there when it was originally added in commit 752d13305c78 ("x86/tdx: Expand __tdx_hypercall() to handle more arguments"), but was later removed in commit 1e70c680375a ("x86/tdx: Do not corrupt frame-pointer in __tdx_hypercall()"), which was correct because %rsi is later restored in the "pop %rsi". However a later commit 7a3a401874be ("x86/tdx: Drop flags from __tdx_hypercall()") removed that "pop %rsi" but forgot to add the "xor %rsi, %rsi" back.

Fix by adding it back.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.1 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:NLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 7a3a401874bea02f568aa416ac29170d8cde0dc2 to before 2191950d35d8f81620ea8d4e04d983f664fe3a8aAffected
  • 7a3a401874bea02f568aa416ac29170d8cde0dc2 to before de4c5bacca4f50233f1f791bec9eeb4dee1b14cdAffected
  • 7a3a401874bea02f568aa416ac29170d8cde0dc2 to before 5d092b66119d774853cc9308522620299048a662Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.4Affected
  • before 6.4Not affected
  • 6.5.12 through 6.5.*Not affected
  • 6.6.2 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.7 and laterNot affected

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