CVE-2021-46778 (GCVE-0-2021-46778)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-08-09 20:20
Modified
2024-09-17 00:36
Severity ?
CWE
  • NA
Summary
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.
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AMD AMD Processors Version: Processor Some AMD Processors
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