KVM: x86: Handle SRCU initialization failure during page track init (Linux Linux)

CVE-2021-47407
MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.25 % · percentile 16 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

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]

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 0eb05bf290cfe8610d9680b49abef37febd1c38a < deb2949417677649e2413266d7ce8c2ff73952b4 ; affected 0eb05bf290cfe8610d9680b49abef37febd1c38a < 4664318f73e496cd22c71b10888e75434a123e23 ; affected 0eb05bf290cfe8610d9680b49abef37febd1c38a < eb7511bf9182292ef1df1082d23039e856d1ddfb
Linux · Linuxaffected 4.6 ; unaffected 0 < 4.6 ; unaffected 5.10.71 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.14.10 ≤ 5.14.* ; unaffected 5.15 ≤ *

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD