USN-5072-1 linux-azure-5.8, linux-oem-5.10 vulnerabilities

Maxim Levitsky and Paolo Bonzini discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation for AMD processors in the Linux kernel allowed a guest VM to disable restrictions on VMLOAD/VMSAVE in a nested guest. An attacker in a guest VM could use this to read or write portions of the host's physical memory...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : Linux kernel vulnerability (USN-5062-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5062-1 advisory. Maxim Levitsky discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation for AMD processors in the Linux kernel did not properly prevent a guest VM from enabling AVIC in...

CVE-2021-29657

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. A KVM guest on AMD can launch a nested guest without the Intercept VMRUN control bit by exploiting a TOCTOU vulnerability in nestedsvmvmrun. A malicious guest could use this flaw to gain unrestricted access to host MSRs, possibly leading to guest-to-host esca...

CVE-2021-3653

A flaw was found in the KVM's AMD code for supporting SVM nested virtualization. The flaw occurs when processing the VMCB virtual machine control block provided by the L1 guest to spawn/handle a nested guest L2. Due to improper validation of the "intctl" field, this issue could allow a malicious ...

CVE-2021-3656

A flaw was found in the KVM's AMD code for supporting SVM nested virtualization. The flaw occurs when processing the VMCB virtual machine control block provided by the L1 guest to spawn/handle a nested guest L2. Due to improper validation of the "virtext" field, this issue could allow a malicious...

CVE-2021-3656

A flaw was found in the KVM's AMD code for supporting SVM nested virtualization. The flaw occurs when processing the VMCB virtual machine control block provided by the L1 guest to spawn/handle a nested guest L2. Due to improper validation of the "virtext" field, this issue could allow a malicious...

UBUNTU-CVE-2021-3656

A flaw was found in the KVM's AMD code for supporting SVM nested virtualization. The flaw occurs when processing the VMCB virtual machine control block provided by the L1 guest to spawn/handle a nested guest L2. Due to improper validation of the "virtext" field, this issue could allow a malicious...

CVE-2021-3653

A flaw was found in the KVM's AMD code for supporting SVM nested virtualization. The flaw occurs when processing the VMCB virtual machine control block provided by the L1 guest to spawn/handle a nested guest L2. Due to improper validation of the "intctl" field, this issue could allow a malicious ...

UBUNTU-CVE-2021-3653

A flaw was found in the KVM's AMD code for supporting SVM nested virtualization. The flaw occurs when processing the VMCB virtual machine control block provided by the L1 guest to spawn/handle a nested guest L2. Due to improper validation of the "intctl" field, this issue could allow a malicious ...

Oracle Linux 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel-container (ELSA-2021-9422)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2021-9422 advisory. - KVM: nSVM: always intercept VMLOAD/VMSAVE when nested Maxim Levitsky Orabug: 33205367 CVE-2021-3656 Tenable has extracted the preceding description...

PT-2021-6073

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 5.14-rc7 Description A flaw was found in the KVM's AMD code for supporting SVM nested virtualization. The flaw occurs when processing the VMCB virtual machine control block provided by the L1 guest to spawn/handl...

KVM security vulnerabilities

KVM is a kernel-based virtual machine. A security vulnerability exists in the AMD code for KVM, which stems from incorrect validation of "virtext" when processing VMCBs Virtual Machine Control Blocks provided by L1 guests to generate/process nested guests L2...

Oracle Linux 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2021-9419)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2021-9419 advisory. - KVM: nSVM: always intercept VMLOAD/VMSAVE when nested Maxim Levitsky Orabug: 33205367 CVE-2021-3656 CVE-2021-3656 Tenable has extracted the preceding...

Oracle Linux 7 / 8 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2021-9420)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 / 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2021-9420 advisory. - KVM: nSVM: always intercept VMLOAD/VMSAVE when nested Maxim Levitsky Orabug: 33205365 CVE-2021-3656 CVE-2021-3656 Tenable has extracted the...

PT-2021-6074

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel affected versions not specified Description A flaw was found in the KVM's AMD code for supporting SVM nested virtualization. The issue occurs when processing the VMCB virtual machine control block provided by the L1 guest to...

Oracle Linux 7 / 8 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel-container (ELSA-2021-9421)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 / 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2021-9421 advisory. - KVM: nSVM: always intercept VMLOAD/VMSAVE when nested Maxim Levitsky Orabug: 33205365 CVE-2021-3656 Tenable has extracted the preceding descripti...

DEBIAN-CVE-2021-29657

arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c in the Linux kernel before 5.11.12 has a use-after-free in which an AMD KVM guest can bypass access control on host OS MSRs when there are nested guests, aka CID-a58d9166a756. This occurs because of a TOCTOU race condition associated with a VMCB12 double fetch in...

AZL-6554 CVE-2021-29657 affecting package kernel for versions less than 5.10.78.1-1

arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c in the Linux kernel before 5.11.12 has a use-after-free in which an AMD KVM guest can bypass access control on host OS MSRs when there are nested guests, aka CID-a58d9166a756. This occurs because of a TOCTOU race condition associated with a VMCB12 double fetch in...

Kernel: kvm: nVMX: L2 guest may trick the L0 hypervisor to access sensitive L1 resources

A flaw was found in the way KVM hypervisor handled instruction emulation for the L2 guest when nested=1 virtualization is enabled. In the instruction emulation, the L2 guest could trick the L0 hypervisor into accessing sensitive bits of the L1 hypervisor. An L2 guest could use this flaw to...

Kernel: kvm: nVMX: L2 guest may trick the L0 hypervisor to access sensitive L1 resources

A flaw was found in the way KVM hypervisor handled instruction emulation for the L2 guest when nested=1 virtualization is enabled. In the instruction emulation, the L2 guest could trick the L0 hypervisor into accessing sensitive bits of the L1 hypervisor. An L2 guest could use this flaw to...