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CVE-2021-47450
published 2024-05-22

CVE-2021-47450: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: arm64: Fix host stage-2 PGD refcount The KVM page-table library refcounts the pages of…

PriorityP419medium5.5CVSS 3.1
AVLACLPRLUINSUCNINAH
EPSS
0.21%
10.8th percentile
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: arm64: Fix host stage-2 PGD refcount The KVM page-table library refcounts the pages of concatenated stage-2 PGDs individually. However, when running KVM in protected mode, the host's stage-2 PGD is currently managed by EL2 as a single high-order compound page, which can cause the refcount of the tail pages to reach 0 when they shouldn't, hence corrupting the page-table. Fix this by introducing a new hyp_split_page() helper in the EL2 page allocator (matching the kernel's split_page() function), and make use of it from host_s2_zalloc_pages_exact().

Affected

14 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debianlinux< linux 5.15.3-1 (bookworm)linux 5.15.3-1 (bookworm)
linuxlinux
linuxlinux>= 1025c8c0c6accfcbdc8f52ca1940160f65cd87d6 < b372264c66ef78f2cab44e877fbd765ad6d24c39b372264c66ef78f2cab44e877fbd765ad6d24c39
linuxlinux>= 1025c8c0c6accfcbdc8f52ca1940160f65cd87d6 < 1d58a17ef54599506d44c45ac95be27273a4d2b11d58a17ef54599506d44c45ac95be27273a4d2b1
linuxlinux_kernel
linuxlinux_kernel
linuxlinux_kernel
linuxlinux_kernel
linuxlinux_kernel
linuxlinux_kernel
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 5.15.3-15.15.3-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 5.15.3-15.15.3-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 5.15.3-15.15.3-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 5.13 < 5.14.155.14.15

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.15.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
osv5.5MEDIUM
vendor_debian5.5MEDIUM
vendor_redhat5.5MEDIUM
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