vulnerability

Amazon Linux 2023: CVE-2024-36953: Medium priority package update for kernel

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
May 30, 2024
Added
Jun 11, 2025
Modified
Jun 11, 2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: arm64: vgic-v2: Check for non-NULL vCPU in vgic_v2_parse_attr()
vgic_v2_parse_attr() is responsible for finding the vCPU that matches
the user-provided CPUID, which (of course) may not be valid. If the ID
is invalid, kvm_get_vcpu_by_id() returns NULL, which isn't handled
gracefully.
Similar to the GICv3 uaccess flow, check that kvm_get_vcpu_by_id()
actually returns something and fail the ioctl if not.

Solutions

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