ghsa-p6j3-p28j-4x3h
Vulnerability from github
Published
2024-08-17 12:30
Modified
2024-09-03 18:31
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details

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.

[frankja@linux.ibm.com: commit message spelling fix, subject prefix fix]

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{
  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2024-43819"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-476"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2024-08-17T10:15:08Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nkvm: s390: Reject memory region operations for ucontrol VMs\n\nThis change rejects the KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION and\nKVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION2 ioctls when called on a ucontrol VM.\nThis is necessary since ucontrol VMs have kvm-\u003earch.gmap set to 0 and\nwould thus result in a null pointer dereference further in.\nMemory management needs to be performed in userspace and using the\nioctls KVM_S390_UCAS_MAP and KVM_S390_UCAS_UNMAP.\n\nAlso improve s390 specific documentation for KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION\nand KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION2.\n\n[frankja@linux.ibm.com: commit message spelling fix, subject prefix fix]",
  "id": "GHSA-p6j3-p28j-4x3h",
  "modified": "2024-09-03T18:31:31Z",
  "published": "2024-08-17T12:30:32Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-43819"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/49c9945c054df4c22008e2bf87ca74d3e2507aa6"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7816e58967d0e6cadce05c8540b47ed027dc2499"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ]
}


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