CVE-2024-43819CWE-476

CVE-2024-43819

Medium · published August 17, 2024

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
14.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

kvm: s390: Reject memory region operations for ucontrol VMs

This change rejects the KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION and

KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION2 ioctls when called on a ucontrol VM.

This is necessary since ucontrol VMs have kvm->arch.gmap set to 0 and

would thus result in a null pointer dereference further in.

Memory management needs to be performed in userspace and using the

ioctls KVM_S390_UCAS_MAP and KVM_S390_UCAS_UNMAP.

Also improve s390 specific documentation for KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION

and KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION2.

[[email protected]: commit message spelling fix, subject prefix fix]

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00241 · 14.3th percentile
Weakness
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference
Published
2024-08-17T14:15Z
Affected products (1)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 3.4, < 6.10.36.10.3
References (3)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 17 AUG 09:21Z
    kvm: s390: Reject memory region operations for ucontrol VMs
    cvelistv5