Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 6.1, and Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: x86 – Mark the target gfn of the emulated atomic instruction as dirty When emulating an atomic access on behalf of the guest, mark the target gfn as dirty if the CMPXCHG instruction attempts to be executed and fails without ...

Astra Linux – Vulnerabilities in Linux 5.10, Linux 5.15, Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: s390: pv: fix index value of replaced ASCE The index field of the struct page corresponding to a guest ASCE should be 0. When replacing the ASCE in s390replaceasce, the index of the new ASCE should also be set to 0. Using th...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Qemu

A flaw was discovered in the implementation of the 9p passthrough filesystem 9pfs in QEMU. The 9pfs server did not prevent the opening of special files on the host side, potentially allowing a malicious client to escape from the exported 9p tree by creating and opening a device file in the shared...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: drm/gpusvm: fixed the usage of hmmpfntomaporder Handled the case where the hmm range partially covers a large page such as 2M. Otherwise, we might end up doing something unpleasant, such as mapping memory that is outside the...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: LoongArch: KVM: Fixed a stack protection issue in the sendipidata function. The function kvmiobusread is called in the sendipidata function. The buffer size of the parameter val should be at least 8 bytes. However, some emulation...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.1

A flaw was discovered in KVM. An improper check in svmsetx2apicmsrinterception may allow direct access to the host’s x2apic MSRs when the guest resets its APIC, potentially leading to a denial-of-service condition...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: x86: Ignore -EBUSY when checking nested events from vcpublock Ignore -EBUSY when checking nested events after exiting a blocking state. This applies when L2 is active; exiting to userspace will typically result in a spurious...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: x86: Forcibly leave nested virtualization mode when SMM state is toggled The nested virtualization mode is forcibly exited if the user space toggles the SMM state using KVMSETVCPUEVENTS or KVMSYNCX86EVENTS. If the user space...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.15

A flaw was discovered in KVM AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization SEV within the Linux kernel. A KVM guest that uses SEV-ES or SEV-SNP with multiple vCPUs can trigger a double fetch race condition vulnerability and invoke the VMGEXIT handler recursively. If an attacker manages to call the handler...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10

A vulnerability was discovered in the kvms390guestsidaop function within the arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c file in KVM for s390 in the Linux kernel. This flaw allows a local attacker with normal user privileges to gain unauthorized memory write access. This vulnerability affects Linux kernel versions...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: gup: stop abusing trygrabfolio A kernel warning was reported when pinning folio in CMA memory during the launch of the SEV virtual machine. The error message looks like this: 464.325306 WARNING: CPU: 13 PID: 6734 at...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10, Linux

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel’s implementation of proxied virtualized TPM devices. In a system where virtualized TPM devices are enabled which is not the default setting, a local attacker can exploit this flaw to create a “use-after-free” condition, potentially allowing them to escala...

Astra Linux – Vulnerabilities in Linux, Linux-5.10, Linux-5.15, Linux-6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: s390: fix in setting the fpc register The function kvmarchvcpuioctlsetfpu allows for setting the floating-point control fpc register of a guest CPU. The new value is validated by temporarily loading it into the fpc register...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in libvirt

A flaw was discovered in the libvirt libxl driver. A malicious guest could continuously reboot itself, causing libvirtd on the host to become locked out or crash, resulting in a denial-of-service condition...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10, Linux

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: SVM: Do not generate errors if the user space injects an interrupt with GIF=0. Do not generate errors or warnings during interrupt injection when GIF is cleared. It is trivial for the user space to force this situation using...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: x86 – Handling of SRCU initialization failures during page track initialization Check the return value of initsrcustruct, which may fail due to OOM conditions when initializing the page track mechanism. Lack of checking lead...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: PCI: hv: Fixed double calls to idafree in the hvpciprobe error path. If hvpciprobe fails after storing the domain number in hbus-bridge-domainNr, a call to free this domainNr is made via pciBusReleaseEmulDomainNr. However, during...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: SEV – Lock all vCPUs when synchronizing VMSAs for SNP launches to complete. Lock all vCPUs when synchronizing and encrypting VMSAs for SNP guests. Allowing the user space to manipulate or run a vCPU while its state is being...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: KVM: x86: Fixed a stack-out-of-bounds memory access from ioapicwriteindirect. KASAN reports the following issue: BUG: In kvmmakevcpusrequestmask+0x174/0x440 kvm, there is a stack-out-of-bounds situation. A read of size 8 at...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: SVM: A WARN message is generated on vNMI when an NMI window is requested, provided that the NMIs are effectively masked. This occurs only if the vCPU is already handling an NMI. KVM’s approach for handling simultaneous NMIs ...