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Unscored CVE-2021-46778 EUVD-2021-33434GHSA-745h-3gvr-9mc6

Execution unit scheduler contention may lead to a side channel vulnerability found on AMD CPU microarchitectures codenamed “Zen 1”, “Zen 2”…

Published Aug 9, 2022 · Updated Sep 17, 2024 · Assigned by AMD

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
AMD AMD Processors Processor Some AMD Processors —

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