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ghsa-xchp-7x95-36g7

Vulnerability from github

Published

2024-05-21 15:31

Modified

2024-05-21 15:31

Details

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

KVM: x86: Handle SRCU initialization failure during page track init

Check the return of init_srcu_struct(), which can fail due to OOM, when initializing the page track mechanism. Lack of checking leads to a NULL pointer deref found by a modified syzkaller.

[Move the call towards the beginning of kvm_arch_init_vm. - Paolo]

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CVE-2021-47407 (GCVE-0-2021-47407)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2024-05-21 15:03

Modified

2025-05-04 07:10

Severity ?

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: x86: Handle SRCU initialization failure during page track init Check the return of init_srcu_struct(), which can fail due to OOM, when initializing the page track mechanism. Lack of checking leads to a NULL pointer deref found by a modified syzkaller. [Move the call towards the beginning of kvm_arch_init_vm. - Paolo]

References

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	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/deb2949417677649e2413266d7ce8c2ff73952b4
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4664318f73e496cd22c71b10888e75434a123e23
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eb7511bf9182292ef1df1082d23039e856d1ddfb

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Version

Version: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2
Version: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2
Version: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2

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