Kernel: ppc: kvm: conflicting use of HSTATE_HOST_R1 to store r1 state leads to host stack corruption

A flaw was found in the way the KVM hypervisor on the Power8 processor stores the r1 register state in the 'HSTATEHOSTR1' field on the Linux kernel stack. This flaw occurs while handling hypercalls in Transactional Memory TM suspend mode in the kvmppcsavetm and kvmppcrestoretm routines, leading t...

DEBIAN-CVE-2020-8834

KVM in the Linux kernel on Power8 processors has a conflicting use of HSTATEHOSTR1 to store r1 state in kvmppchventry plus in kvmppcsave,restoretm, leading to a stack corruption. Because of this, an attacker with the ability run code in kernel space of a guest VM can cause the host kernel to pani...

CVE-2020-8834

A flaw was found in the way the KVM hypervisor on the Power8 processor stores the r1 register state in the 'HSTATEHOSTR1' field on the Linux kernel stack. This flaw occurs while handling hypercalls in Transactional Memory TM suspend mode in the kvmppcsavetm and kvmppcrestoretm routines, leading t...