hw: cpu: AMD: Execution Unit Scheduler Contention Side-Channel vulnerability

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.

Insufficient DRAM address validation in System Management Unit (SMU) may allow an attacker to read/write from/to an invalid DRAM address, potentially resulting in denial-of-service.

Insufficient validation of addresses in AMD Secure Processor (ASP) firmware system call may potentially lead to arbitrary code execution by a compromised user application.

Improper clearing of sensitive data in the ASP Bootloader may expose secret keys to a privileged attacker accessing ASP SRAM, potentially leading to a loss of confidentiality.

Insufficient validation of SPI flash addresses in the ASP (AMD Secure Processor) bootloader may allow an attacker to read data in memory mapped beyond SPI flash resulting in a potential loss of availability and integrity.

Insufficient input validation in the ASP (AMD Secure Processor) bootloader may allow an attacker with a compromised Uapp or ABL to coerce the bootloader into exposing sensitive information to the SMU (System Management Unit) resulting in a potential loss of confidentiality and integrity.

An attacker with access to a malicious hypervisor may be able to infer data values used in a SEV guest on AMD CPUs by monitoring ciphertext values over time.

On Xilinx Zynq-7000 SoC devices, physical modification of an SD boot image allows for a buffer overflow attack in the ROM. Because the Zynq-7000's boot image header is unencrypted and unauthenticated before use, an attacker can modify the boot header stored on an SD card so that a secure image appears to be unencrypted, and they will be able to modify the full range of register initialization values. Normally, these registers will be restricted when booting securely. Of importance to this attack are two registers that control the SD card's transfer type and transfer size. These registers could be modified a way that causes a buffer overflow in the ROM.

Insufficient validation of elliptic curve points in SEV-legacy firmware may compromise SEV-legacy guest migration potentially resulting in loss of guest's integrity or confidentiality.

hw: cpu: LFENCE/JMP Mitigation Update for CVE-2017-5715

LFENCE/JMP (mitigation V2-2) may not sufficiently mitigate CVE-2017-5715 on some AMD CPUs.

AMD processors may speculatively re-order load instructions which can result in stale data being observed when multiple processors are operating on shared memory, resulting in potential data leakage.

hw: amd: Insufficient memory cleanup in ASP Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) may poison process contents

Insufficient memory cleanup in the AMD Secure Processor (ASP) Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) may allow an authenticated attacker with privileges to generate a valid signed TA and potentially poison the contents of the process memory with attacker controlled data resulting in a loss of confidentiality.

hw: amd: Insufficient verification in 'LoadModule' may lead to an out-of-bounds write

Insufficient verification of missing size check in 'LoadModule' may lead to an out-of-bounds write potentially allowing an attacker with privileges to gain code execution of the OS/kernel by loading a malicious TA.

A malicious or compromised UApp or ABL may coerce the bootloader into corrupting arbitrary memory potentially leading to loss of integrity of data.

Improper validation of the BIOS directory may allow for searches to read beyond the directory table copy in RAM, exposing out of bounds memory contents, resulting in a potential denial of service.

A malicious or compromised UApp or ABL may be used by an attacker to issue a malformed system call to the Stage 2 Bootloader potentially leading to corrupt memory and code execution.

A malformed SMI (System Management Interface) command may allow an attacker to establish a corrupted SMI Trigger Info data structure, potentially leading to out-of-bounds memory reads and writes when triggering an SMI resulting in a potential loss of resources.

An attacker with root account privileges can load any legitimately signed firmware image into the Audio Co-Processor (ACP,) irrespective of the respective signing key being declared as usable for authenticating an ACP firmware image, potentially resulting in a denial of service.

Insufficient bound checks in the System Management Unit (SMU) may result in access to an invalid address space that could result in denial of service.

Insufficient checks in System Management Unit (SMU) FeatureConfig may result in reenabling features potentially resulting in denial of resources and/or denial of service.