CVE-2024-35791 — Use After Free in Linux
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
OSV5.5
EPSS
0.0%
top 92.33%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedMay 17
Latest updateSep 18
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: SVM: Flush pages under kvm->lock to fix UAF in svm_register_enc_region()
Do the cache flush of converted pages in svm_register_enc_region() before
dropping kvm->lock to fix use-after-free issues where region and/or its
array of pages could be freed by a different task, e.g. if userspace has
__unregister_enc_region_locked() already queued up for the region.
Note, the "obvious" alternative of using local variables doesn't …
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9
Affected Packages5 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux4f627ecde7329e476a077bb0590db8f27bb8f912 — 2d13b79640b147bd77c34a5998533b2021a4122d+8
Also affects: Debian Linux 10.0
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
10📋Vendor Advisories
10💬Community
1Bugzilla▶
CVE-2024-35791 kernel: KVM: SVM: Flush pages under kvm->lock to fix UAF in svm_register_enc_region()↗2024-05-17