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Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2023 16:04:31 -0700
From: Jean Luc Picard <atari2600a@...il.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Xen Security Advisory 439 v1 (CVE-2023-20588) -
x86/AMD: Divide speculative information leak
No intent? It wouldn't be terribly hard, they could just RNG over the
register afterwards or run a 1/1 to nullify any data left therein. The
latter would require control lines to be in place, the latter would just
mean extending the microcode instruction. That said I could understand the
want to depricate zen1 support entirely, everyone upgraded when they could
it was super super cheap to do so & there weren't really any enterprise
users.
On Tue, Oct 3, 2023 at 3:54 PM Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 03, 2023 at 03:02:41PM -0700, Jean Luc Picard wrote:
> > Hi, just dropping in, is this the kind of thing to where the userspace &
> > kernel layers need mitigation until there's microcode mitigation?
>
> In general, kind of yes - it could have been that kind of thing.
>
> More specifically, no - in this case, only kernel and hypervisor
> and system configuration (disable SMT) mitigations are expected. No
> userspace mitigations, other than maybe specific algorithms avoiding
> integer divide operations based on secrets where they can. While AMD
> maybe could fix this in microcode (or maybe not, or maybe with
> unacceptable performance penalty), they expressed no plans to do so.
>
> > On Tue, Oct 3, 2023 at 2:46???PM Jeremy Stanley <fungi@...goth.org>
> wrote:
> > > On 2023-10-03 22:37:08 +0100 (+0100), Andrew Cooper wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > > If you have a proposal for how you'd prefer it to be done, I'll see
> what
> > > > I can do. Perhaps BCC oss-security, or just send out a second mail?
> > >
> > > When I send advisories, I prepare two basically identical E-mail
> > > messages: one to the project's announcement list and one to
> > > oss-security (signing both of them). It seems like this is the most
> > > common approach to avoiding cross-posting between lists.
>
> Andrew, sending a second message like Jeremy suggests works best.
> Bcc currently isn't expected to work at all. Thank you!
>
> BTW, in this case I think the problem was actually for Xen's lists more
> than for oss-security - you included xen-announce among the CC'ed lists,
> and this means e.g. Demi Marie's reply was attempted to be posted to
> there, while certainly not being a valid Xen announcement. However, I
> guess external messages to the announcement list are very easy to reject
> on your side. It's not so easy for us on oss-security because we've
> setup some senders to bypass moderation, yet those people participate in
> threads on other lists that might just happen to be CC'ed in here and
> they might not notice that the rest of the sub-thread is moderated-out.
>
> I'm not too concerned about this issue with Xen announcements in
> particular - things have worked pretty well with these so far.
>
> Alexander
>
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