Re: CVE-2024-35802: x86/sev: Fix position dependent variable references in startup code

From: Nikolay Borisov
Date: Thu May 23 2024 - 08:02:09 EST




On 23.05.24 г. 14:21 ч., Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
Isn't crashing SEV guests a problem with "availability"? That term
comes from the CVE definition of what we need to mark as a CVE, which is
why this one was picked.

But availability has never been one of the tenets of CoCo, in fact in sev-snp/tdx the VMM is explicitly considered outside of the TCB so availability cannot be guaranteed.