Libvirt Security Notice: LSN-2019-0008
Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX) Asynchronous Abort
Lifecycle
| Reported on: |
20190918 |
| Published on: |
20191112 |
| Fixed on: |
20191113 |
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Description
This is not a vulnerability in libvirt, rather it is
a set of changes in libvirt to enable mitigation and/or avoid unnecessary
mitigation of the Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX)
Asynchronous Abort hardware flaws by providing extra CPU features
"tsx-ctrl" and "taa-no".
Refer to https://access.redhat.com/articles/tsx-asynchronousabort
for further background information.
Affected product: libvirt
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