vulnerability

Oracle Linux: CVE-2024-50115: ELSA-2024-11486: kernel security update (MODERATE)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Nov 5, 2024
Added
Jan 7, 2025
Modified
Jul 17, 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

oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel
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