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CVE-2021-43056 (GCVE-0-2021-43056)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-10-28 03:13 – Updated: 2024-08-04 03:47
VLAI
Summary
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel for powerpc before 5.14.15. It allows a malicious KVM guest to crash the host, when the host is running on Power8, due to an arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S implementation bug in the handling of the SRR1 register values.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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      "status": "final",
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      "version": "3"
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      "source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
      "status": "interim",
      "title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2021-43056",
      "url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2021-43056.json",
      "version": "56"
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  }
}



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