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HistoryMay 22, 2024 - 7:15 a.m.

CVE-2021-47450

2024-05-2207:15:00
Google
osv.dev
6
linux kernel
vulnerability
cve-2021-47450
resolved
kvm
arm64
page-table
library
el2
host
stage-2
pgd
refcount
compound page
page-table corruption
hyp_split_page
page allocator
split_page
host_s2_zalloc_pages_exact

AI Score

6.5

Confidence

Low

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: arm64: Fix host stage-2 PGD refcount The KVM page-table library refcounts the pages of concatenated stage-2 PGDs individually. However, when running KVM in protected mode, the host’s stage-2 PGD is currently managed by EL2 as a single high-order compound page, which can cause the refcount of the tail pages to reach 0 when they shouldn’t, hence corrupting the page-table. Fix this by introducing a new hyp_split_page() helper in the EL2 page allocator (matching the kernel’s split_page() function), and make use of it from host_s2_zalloc_pages_exact().