Bug 699994 (CVE-2019-11135)

Summary:	[TRACKER] TSX Transaction Asynchronous Abort (TAA) (CVE-2019-11135)
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot <glsamaker>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	Keywords:	Tracker
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00270.html
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	699996, 699998
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Description GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev

2019-11-13 10:51:40 UTC

CVE-2019-11135 (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-11135):
  A flaw was found in the implementation of Intel Transactional
  Synchronization Extensions (TSX) abortion where a local authenticated
  attacker with the ability to monitor execution time is able to infer TSX
  memory state by comparing abort execution times.