Vulnerabilities in the TPM 2.0 reference implementation code

Introduction

In October 2021, Microsoft released Windows 11. One of the installation requirements that stood out was the need for a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0.
An implication of this requirement is that, in order to be able to run Windows 11 within a virtual machine, virtualization software must provide a TPM to VMs, either by doing passthrough to the hardware TPM on the host machine, or by supplying a virtual TPM to them.

We found this to be an …

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