CVE-2021-47062

KVM: SVM: Use online_vcpus, not created_vcpus, to iterate over vCPUs

published February 29, 2024

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
12.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

KVM: SVM: Use online_vcpus, not created_vcpus, to iterate over vCPUs

Use the kvm_for_each_vcpu() helper to iterate over vCPUs when encrypting

VMSAs for SEV, which effectively switches to use online_vcpus instead of

created_vcpus. This fixes a possible null-pointer dereference as

created_vcpus does not guarantee a vCPU exists, since it is updated at

the very beginning of KVM_CREATE_VCPU. created_vcpus exists to allow the

bulk of vCPU creation to run in parallel, while still correctly

restricting the max number of max vCPUs.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00222 · 12.1th percentile
Published
2024-02-29T22:37Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 29 FEB 22:37Z
    KVM: SVM: Use online_vcpus, not created_vcpus, to iterate over vCPUs
    cvelistv5