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Linux KVM Instruction Emulation Issue[6]
Authored by Jann Horn[7], Google Security Research[8]

KVM instruction emulation can run while KVM_VCPU_PREEMPTED is set, which can lead other vcpus to skip sending TLB flush IPIs. As a consequence, KVM instruction emulation can access memory through stale translations when the guest kernel thinks it has flushed all cached translations. This could potentially be used by unprivileged userspace inside a guest to compromise the guest kernel.

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