Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-40953

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - KVM: Fix a data race on lastboostedvcpu in kvmvcpuonspin Use READ,WRITEONCE to access kvm-lastboostedvcpu to ensure the loads and stores are atomic. In the...

SUSE SLES15: kernel-azure / kernel-azure-devel / kernel-devel-azure / etc (SUSE-SU-2024:2896-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLESSAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:2896-1 advisory. The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP6 Azure kernel was updated to receive various security bugfixes. The following security bugs were...

CVE-2024-40953

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: Fix a data race on lastboostedvcpu in kvmvcpuonspin Use READ,WRITEONCE to access kvm-lastboostedvcpu to ensure the loads and stores are atomic. In the extremely unlikely scenario the compiler tears the stores, it's...

CVE-2024-40953

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: Fix a data race on lastboostedvcpu in kvmvcpuonspin Use READ,WRITEONCE to access kvm-lastboostedvcpu to ensure the loads and stores are atomic. In the extremely unlikely scenario the compiler tears the stores, it's...

CVE-2024-40953 KVM: Fix a data race on last_boosted_vcpu in kvm_vcpu_on_spin()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: Fix a data race on lastboostedvcpu in kvmvcpuonspin Use READ,WRITEONCE to access kvm-lastboostedvcpu to ensure the loads and stores are atomic. In the extremely unlikely scenario the compiler tears the stores, it's...

CVE-2024-40953

CVE-2024-40953: In the Linux kernel KVM path, a data race on last_boosted_vcpu in kvm_vcpu_on_spin() was fixed. The underlying issue allowed non-atomic loads/stores of kvm->last_boosted_vcpu, potentially causing an out-of-bounds vCPU access with very large vCPU counts (e.g., 257). The patch in...