CVE-2024-53135 (GCVE-0-2024-53135)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-12-04 14:20 – Updated: 2026-08-05 11:43
VLAI
Title
KVM: VMX: Bury Intel PT virtualization (guest/host mode) behind CONFIG_BROKEN
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: VMX: Bury Intel PT virtualization (guest/host mode) behind CONFIG_BROKEN Hide KVM's pt_mode module param behind CONFIG_BROKEN, i.e. disable support for virtualizing Intel PT via guest/host mode unless BROKEN=y. There are myriad bugs in the implementation, some of which are fatal to the guest, and others which put the stability and health of the host at risk. For guest fatalities, the most glaring issue is that KVM fails to ensure tracing is disabled, and *stays* disabled prior to VM-Enter, which is necessary as hardware disallows loading (the guest's) RTIT_CTL if tracing is enabled (enforced via a VMX consistency check). Per the SDM: If the logical processor is operating with Intel PT enabled (if IA32_RTIT_CTL.TraceEn = 1) at the time of VM entry, the "load IA32_RTIT_CTL" VM-entry control must be 0. On the host side, KVM doesn't validate the guest CPUID configuration provided by userspace, and even worse, uses the guest configuration to decide what MSRs to save/load at VM-Enter and VM-Exit. E.g. configuring guest CPUID to enumerate more address ranges than are supported in hardware will result in KVM trying to passthrough, save, and load non-existent MSRs, which generates a variety of WARNs, ToPA ERRORs in the host, a potential deadlock, etc.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: f99e3daf94ff35dd4a878d32ff66e1fd35223ad6 , < c3742319d021f5aa3a0a8c828485fee14753f6de (git)
Affected: f99e3daf94ff35dd4a878d32ff66e1fd35223ad6 , < d4b42f926adcce4e5ec193c714afd9d37bba8e5b (git)
Affected: f99e3daf94ff35dd4a878d32ff66e1fd35223ad6 , < b8a1d572478b6f239061ee9578b2451bf2f021c2 (git)
Affected: f99e3daf94ff35dd4a878d32ff66e1fd35223ad6 , < e6716f4230a8784957273ddd27326264b27b9313 (git)
Affected: f99e3daf94ff35dd4a878d32ff66e1fd35223ad6 , < d28b059ee4779b5102c5da6e929762520510e406 (git)
Affected: f99e3daf94ff35dd4a878d32ff66e1fd35223ad6 , < b91bb0ce5cd7005b376eac690ec664c1b56372ec (git)
Affected: f99e3daf94ff35dd4a878d32ff66e1fd35223ad6 , < aa0d42cacf093a6fcca872edc954f6f812926a17 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.0
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.0 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.287 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.231 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.174 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.119 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.63 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.11.10 , ≤ 6.11.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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      "id": "msrc_CVE-2024-53135",
      "initial_release_date": "2024-12-02T00:00:00.000Z",
      "product_status:fixed": "5",
      "product_status:known_affected": "5",
      "source": "Microsoft CSAF VEX",
      "status": "final",
      "title": "KVM: VMX: Bury Intel PT virtualization (guest/host mode) behind CONFIG_BROKEN",
      "url": "https://msrc.microsoft.com/csaf/vex/2024/msrc_cve-2024-53135.json",
      "version": "2"
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There are\\nmyriad bugs in the implementation, some of which are fatal to the guest,\\nand others which put the stability and health of the host at risk.\\n\\nFor guest fatalities, the most glaring issue is that KVM fails to ensure\\ntracing is disabled, and *stays* disabled prior to VM-Enter, which is\\nnecessary as hardware disallows loading (the guest\u0027s) RTIT_CTL if tracing\\nis enabled (enforced via a VMX consistency check).  Per the SDM:\\n\\n  If the logical processor is operating with Intel PT enabled (if\\n  IA32_RTIT_CTL.TraceEn = 1) at the time of VM entry, the \\\"load\\n  IA32_RTIT_CTL\\\" VM-entry control must be 0.\\n\\nOn the host side, KVM doesn\u0027t validate the guest CPUID configuration\\nprovided by userspace, and even worse, uses the guest configuration to\\ndecide what MSRs to save/load at VM-Enter and VM-Exit.  E.g. configuring\\nguest CPUID to enumerate more address ranges than are supported in hardware\\nwill result in KVM trying to passthrough, save, and load non-existent MSRs,\\nwhich generates a variety of WARNs, ToPA ERRORs in the host, a potential\\ndeadlock, etc.\"},{\"lang\":\"es\",\"value\":\"En el kernel de Linux, se ha resuelto la siguiente vulnerabilidad: KVM: VMX: oculta la virtualizaci\u00f3n de Intel PT (modo invitado/host) detr\u00e1s de CONFIG_BROKEN Oculta el par\u00e1metro del m\u00f3dulo pt_mode de KVM detr\u00e1s de CONFIG_BROKEN, es decir, deshabilita la compatibilidad con la virtualizaci\u00f3n de Intel PT a trav\u00e9s del modo invitado/host a menos que BROKEN=y. Hay una gran cantidad de errores en la implementaci\u00f3n, algunos de los cuales son fatales para el invitado y otros que ponen en riesgo la estabilidad y la salud del host. Para las fatalidades del invitado, el problema m\u00e1s evidente es que KVM no garantiza que el seguimiento est\u00e9 deshabilitado y *permanece* deshabilitado antes de VM-Enter, lo que es necesario ya que el hardware no permite cargar RTIT_CTL (del invitado) si el seguimiento est\u00e1 habilitado (lo que se aplica a trav\u00e9s de una verificaci\u00f3n de consistencia de VMX). Seg\u00fan el SDM: si el procesador l\u00f3gico est\u00e1 funcionando con Intel PT habilitado (si IA32_RTIT_CTL.TraceEn = 1) en el momento de la entrada de la VM, el control de entrada de la VM \\\"cargar IA32_RTIT_CTL\\\" debe ser 0. En el lado del host, KVM no valida la configuraci\u00f3n de CPUID del invitado proporcionada por el espacio de usuario y, lo que es peor, utiliza la configuraci\u00f3n del invitado para decidir qu\u00e9 MSR guardar/cargar en VM-Enter y VM-Exit. 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    "redhat_vex": {
      "aggregate_severity": "Moderate",
      "current_release_date": "2026-08-04T14:12:09+00:00",
      "cve": "CVE-2024-53135",
      "id": "CVE-2024-53135",
      "initial_release_date": "2024-12-04T00:00:00+00:00",
      "product_status:fixed": "303",
      "product_status:known_affected": "70",
      "product_status:known_not_affected": "42",
      "source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
      "status": "final",
      "title": "kernel: KVM: VMX: Bury Intel PT virtualization (guest/host mode) behind CONFIG_BROKEN",
      "url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2024/cve-2024-53135.json",
      "version": "3"
    },
    "suse_vex": {
      "aggregate_severity": "moderate",
      "current_release_date": "2026-07-25T01:22:21Z",
      "cve": "CVE-2024-53135",
      "id": "CVE-2024-53135",
      "initial_release_date": "2024-12-05T00:15:59Z",
      "product_status:known_affected": "498",
      "product_status:known_not_affected": "162",
      "product_status:recommended": "568",
      "source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
      "status": "interim",
      "title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2024-53135",
      "url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2024-53135.json",
      "version": "82"
    }
  }
}



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