CVE-2020-36311 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2020-36311?

CVE-2020-36311 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 6 Apr 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.9. arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c allows attackers to cause a denial of service (soft lockup) by triggering destruction of a large SEV VM (which requires unregistering many encrypted regions), aka CID-7be74942f184.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-36311?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2020-36311?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2020-36311 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-36311 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2020-36311, GHSA-5v5w-97p2-836p, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-36311.