vulnerability

Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2024-50115: kernel security update

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:C)
Published
11/05/2024
Added
01/15/2025
Modified
01/30/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

KVM: nSVM: Ignore nCR3[4:0] when loading PDPTEs from memory

Ignore nCR3[4:0] when loading PDPTEs from memory for nested SVM, as bits
4:0 of CR3 are ignored when PAE paging is used, and thus VMRUN doesn't
enforce 32-byte alignment of nCR3.

In the absolute worst case scenario, failure to ignore bits 4:0 can result
in an out-of-bounds read, e.g. if the target page is at the end of a
memslot, and the VMM isn't using guard pages.

Per the APM:

The CR3 register points to the base address of the page-directory-pointer
table. The page-directory-pointer table is aligned on a 32-byte boundary,
with the low 5 address bits 4:0 assumed to be 0.

And the SDM's much more explicit:

4:0 Ignored

Note, KVM gets this right when loading PDPTRs, it's only the nSVM flow
that is broken.

Solution(s)

huawei-euleros-2_0_sp9-upgrade-kernelhuawei-euleros-2_0_sp9-upgrade-kernel-toolshuawei-euleros-2_0_sp9-upgrade-kernel-tools-libshuawei-euleros-2_0_sp9-upgrade-python3-perf
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