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Subject: Re: CVE-2024-35802: x86/sev: Fix position dependent variable
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On 23.05.24 г. 14:21 ч., Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> Isn't crashing SEV guests a problem with "availability"?  That term
> comes from the CVE definition of what we need to mark as a CVE, which is
> why this one was picked.

But availability has never been one of the tenets of CoCo, in fact in 
sev-snp/tdx the VMM is explicitly considered outside of the TCB so 
availability cannot be guaranteed.