kernel: Linux kernel KVM: Privilege escalation or denial of service due to improper shadow page table entry handling

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM component. A local attacker with privileges on the host system could exploit a vulnerability in how KVM handles shadow page table entries SPTEs during memory-mapped I/O MMIO operations. By manipulating guest page table entrie...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: KVM: VMX: Fixed a crash caused by uninitialized currentvmcs. KVM enables “Enlightened VMCS” and “Enlightened MSR Bitmap” when running as a nested hypervisor on top of Hyper-V. When the MSR bitmap is updated, the...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: x86/mmu: Write-protecting of L2 SPTEs in TDP MMU when clearing dirty status Check kvmmmupageadneedwriteprotect when deciding whether to write-protect or clear D-bits on TDP MMU SPTEs. This ensures that the TDP MMU takes into...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: LoongArch: KVM: Fixed a memory leak in kvmeiointcdestroy. In kvmioctlcreatedevice, kvmdevice allocates memory. kvmdevice-destroy seems to be supposed to free up the kvmdevice structure, but kvmeiointcDestroy does not do this...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux

A flaw was discovered in the KVM’s AMD code, responsible for supporting SVM nested virtualization. The flaw occurs during the processing of the VMCB virtual machine control block provided by the L1 guest, which is used to spawn or handle a nested guest L2. Due to improper validation of the...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: SVM – Fix for a panic occurring on an out-of-bounds guest IRQ. Since the guestIRQ comes from the KVMIRQFD API call, it may trigger a crash in svmupdatepiirte, due to an out-of-bounds access. Crash output: pid: 22218 task:...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: x86/tdx: Panics occur in cases of incorrect configurations involving access to “private” memory, resulting in a VE exception. All normal kernel memory is considered “TDX private memory”. This includes everything, from kernel...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: x86: Warns when a triple fault assertion never “escapes” from L2 The warnings are removed because they perform a sanity check that ensures KVM never allows a triple fault in L2 to escape and end up in L1. In normal operation...

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

Transmitted requests in Xen’s virtual network protocol can consist of multiple parts. Although none of them are actually useful, except for the initial part, any of these parts can be of zero length, meaning they carry no data at all. In addition to the certain initial portion of the data to be...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Xen

A issue was discovered in Xen through version 4.11.x, allowing users of x86 Intel HVM guest operating systems to obtain unintended read/write DMA access. This could potentially lead to a denial of service host operating system crash or privilege escalation. This issue arises because a backport...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: PCI: hv: Fixed a crash in hvpcirestoremsimsg during hibernation. When a Linux virtual machine with a assigned PCI device runs on Hyper-V, if the PCI device driver is not yet loaded i.e., MSI-X/MSI is not enabled on the device,...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xen/gntdev: Accommodation for VMA splitting Prior to this commit, the gntdev driver code did not handle the following scenario correctly with paravirtualized PV Xen domains: The user process sets up a gntdev mapping consisting of...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: KVM: SVM: Obtain source vCPUs from the source VM for SEV-ES intrahost migration Fixed a bug where KVM attempts to retrieve source vCPUs from the destination VM during intrahost migration. Retrieving the wrong vCPU not only fai...

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: MIPS: KVM: Fix for NULL pointer dereferencing After committing change 45c7e8af4a5e3f0bea4ac209 “MIPS: Remove KVMTE support”, we encountered a NULL pointer dereferencing issue when creating a KVM guest: 146.243409 Starting KVM wit...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: KVM: SEV: Rejects attempts to synchronize VMSA of a vCPU that has already been launched/encrypted. Synchronize the vCPU state with its associated VMSA if the vCPU has already been launched, i.e., if the VMSA has already been...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/xe/vm: moved xesvminit earlier. In xevmcloseandput, we need to be able to call xesvmfini. However, during vm creation, we can call this function on the error path, before actually initializing the svm state. This leads to...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: drm/panthor: Fixed handling of partial GPU mapping of BOs This commit fixes the bug in handling partial mapping of buffer objects to the GPU, which caused kernel warnings. Panthor did not handle correctly the case where the...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: igb: Clean up operations in all error paths when enabling SR-IOV After commit 50f303496d92 “igb: Enabling SR-IOV after reinit”, removing the igb module could cause a hang or crash depending on the machine when the module was load...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: x86: nSVM: fixed a potential NULL dereference during nested migration. It turns out that due to feedback from reviews and/or changes in relocation locations, I accidentally moved the call to nestedsvmloadcr3 too early, befor...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in open-vm-tools

A malicious actor who has been granted “Guest Operation Privileges” https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/8.0/vsphere-security/GUID-6A952214-0E5E-4CCF-9D2A-90948FF643EC.html can potentially elevate their privileges if the target virtual machine has been assigned a more privileged “Guest Alias...