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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Apr 7, 2021· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2020-36311

CVE-2020-36311

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.9. arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c allows attackers to cause a denial of service (soft lockup) by triggering destruction of a large SEV VM (which requires unregistering many encrypted regions), aka CID-7be74942f184.

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