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Xen updates advisory on AMD Transient Scheduler Attacks (XSA-525)

Original title: Xen Security Advisory 525 v1 (CVE-2024-36350,CVE-2024-36357,CVE-2026-0004) - x86: Transient Scheduler Attacks (update)

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The update covers CVE-2024-36350, CVE-2024-36357, and CVE-2026-0004 after AMD reported further TSA properties.

The Xen security team posted an update to XSA-525 on x86 Transient Scheduler Attacks, citing CVE-2024-36350, CVE-2024-36357, and CVE-2026-0004. AMD discovered further properties of the attacks. Earlier advisory XSA-471 addressed TSA-SQ and TSA-L1 on Zen 3 and Zen 4 CPUs. The available text ends while repeating AMD’s prior statement that Zen 5 CPUs were not vulnerable to TSA-SQ.

Unconfirmed: The excerpt is cut off before stating whether Zen 5 is affected by the newly described properties.

Key facts
  • XSA-471 previously covered TSA-SQ and TSA-L1 variants.
  • Those earlier variants affected Zen 3 and Zen 4 CPUs.
  • The posted excerpt is truncated before the Zen 5 discussion is completed.
Security assessment · AI, from the article

Impact: Further Transient Scheduler Attack properties on AMD x86 CPUs

ProductAffected
AMD Zen 3 CPUs—
AMD Zen 4 CPUs—
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Vulnerabilities mentioned

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CVEVulnerabilityCVSSEPSSSignalsPublished
CVE-2024-36350
A transient execution vulnerability in some AMD processors may allow an attacker to infer data from previous stores, potentially resulting in the leakage of…
5.6<1%
CVE-2024-36357
A transient execution vulnerability in some AMD processors may allow an attacker to infer data in the L1D cache, potentially resulting in the leakage of…
5.6<1%
CVE-2026-0004
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From the original article

Posted by Xen . org security team on Nov 10 Xen Security Advisory CVE-2024-36350,CVE-2024-36357,CVE-2026-0004 / XSA-525 x86: Transient Scheduler Attacks (update) ISSUE DESCRIPTION ================= AMD have discovered further properties of Transient Scheduler Attacks. The previously published XSA-471 dealt with two TSA variants, TSA-SQ and TSA-L1 on Zen3 and Zen4 CPUs.

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