Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: arm64: Make ICCSGIEL1 undef in the absence of a vGICv3 On a system with a GICv3, if a guest has not been configured with a GICv3, and the host is not capable of emulating GICv2, writing to any of the ICCSGIEL1 registers will...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: KVM: x86: Acquiring kvm-srcu when handling KVMSETVCPUEVENTS Acquire kvm-srcu when processing KVMSETVCPUEVENTS. When SMM mode is toggled, KVM will forcibly leave the nested VMX/SVM state. Leaving such a state also results in...

KVM: VMX: Bury Intel PT virtualization (guest/host mode) behind CONFIG_BROKEN

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KVM: arm64: Fix shift-out-of-bounds bug

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DEBIAN-CVE-2024-55881

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: x86: Play nice with protected guests in completehypercallexit Use is64bithypercall instead of is64bitmode to detect a 64-bit hypercall when completing said hypercall. For guests with protected state, e.g. SEV-ES and SEV-SNP,...

AZL-68306 CVE-2024-53196 affecting package kernel 5.15.200.1-1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: arm64: Don't retire aborted MMIO instruction Returning an abort to the guest for an unsupported MMIO access is a documented feature of the KVM UAPI. Nevertheless, it's clear that this plumbing has seen limited testing, since...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-53196

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: arm64: Don't retire aborted MMIO instruction Returning an abort to the guest for an unsupported MMIO access is a documented feature of the KVM UAPI. Nevertheless, it's clear that this plumbing has seen limited testing, since...

kernel: KVM: arm64: Disassociate vcpus from redistributor region on teardown

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's KVM for ARM64 within the vgic-init.c, vgic-mmio-v3.c, and vgic.h files. The virtual vCPUs may retain dangling pointers in a redistributor region after they have been torn down, leading to potential memory corruption...

kernel: KVM: arm64: Disassociate vcpus from redistributor region on teardown

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's KVM for ARM64 within the vgic-init.c, vgic-mmio-v3.c, and vgic.h files. The virtual vCPUs may retain dangling pointers in a redistributor region after they have been torn down, leading to potential memory corruption...

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-53135

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: VMX: Bury Intel PT virtualization guest/host mode behind CONFIGBROKEN Hide KVM's ptmode module param behind CONFIGBROKEN, i.e. disable support for virtualizing Intel PT via guest/host mode unless BROKEN=y. There are myriad...

AZL-54141 CVE-2024-53135 affecting package kernel for versions less than 6.6.64.2-1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: VMX: Bury Intel PT virtualization guest/host mode behind CONFIGBROKEN Hide KVM's ptmode module param behind CONFIGBROKEN, i.e. disable support for virtualizing Intel PT via guest/host mode unless BROKEN=y. There are myriad...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-53135

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: VMX: Bury Intel PT virtualization guest/host mode behind CONFIGBROKEN Hide KVM's ptmode module param behind CONFIGBROKEN, i.e. disable support for virtualizing Intel PT via guest/host mode unless BROKEN=y. There are myriad...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-53089

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: LoongArch: KVM: Mark hrtimer to expire in hard interrupt context Like commit 2c0d278f3293f "KVM: LAPIC: Mark hrtimer to expire in hard interrupt context" and commit 9090825fa9974 "KVM: arm/arm64: Let the timer expire in hardirq...

kernel: KVM: Always flush async #PF workqueue when vCPU is being destroyed

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: Always flush async PF workqueue when vCPU is being destroyed Always flush the per-vCPU async PF workqueue when a vCPU is clearing its completion queue, e.g. when a VM and all its vCPUs is being destroyed. KVM must ensure tha...

kernel: KVM: arm64: Fix circular locking dependency

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: arm64: Fix circular locking dependency The rule inside kvm enforces that the vcpu-mutex is taken inside kvm-lock. The rule is violated by the pkvmcreatehypvm which acquires the kvm-lock while already holding the vcpu-mutex...

kernel: KVM: arm64: Disassociate vcpus from redistributor region on teardown

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's KVM for ARM64 within the vgic-init.c, vgic-mmio-v3.c, and vgic.h files. The virtual vCPUs may retain dangling pointers in a redistributor region after they have been torn down, leading to potential memory corruption...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50139

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: arm64: Fix shift-out-of-bounds bug Fix a shift-out-of-bounds bug reported by UBSAN when running VM with MTE enabled host kernel. UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in arch/arm64/kvm/sysregs.c:1988:14 shift exponent 33 is too large f...

SUSE CVE-2024-50114

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: arm64: Unregister redistributor for failed vCPU creation Alex reports that syzkaller has managed to trigger a use-after-free when tearing down a VM: BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in kvmputkvm+0x300/0xe68...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50115

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: nSVM: Ignore nCR34:0 when loading PDPTEs from memory Ignore nCR34:0 when loading PDPTEs from memory for nested SVM, as bits 4:0 of CR3 are ignored when PAE paging is used, and thus VMRUN doesn't enforce 32-byte alignment of...

CVE-2024-50115 KVM: nSVM: Ignore nCR3[4:0] when loading PDPTEs from memory

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: nSVM: Ignore nCR34:0 when loading PDPTEs from memory Ignore nCR34:0 when loading PDPTEs from memory for nested SVM, as bits 4:0 of CR3 are ignored when PAE paging is used, and thus VMRUN doesn't enforce 32-byte alignment of...