CVE-2021-47450

CVE-2021-47450

High · published May 22, 2024

CVSS v3.1
8.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
10.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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().

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00208 · 10.3th percentile
Published
2024-05-22T11:15Z
Affected products (7)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.13, < 5.14.155.14.15
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References (4)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 22 MAY 06:19Z
    KVM: arm64: Fix host stage-2 PGD refcount
    cvelistv5