vulnerability
Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2019-14821: Kernel: KVM: OOB memory access via mmio ring buffer
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
7 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) | Sep 19, 2019 | Dec 29, 2020 | Apr 11, 2025 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Sep 19, 2019
Added
Dec 29, 2020
Modified
Apr 11, 2025
Description
An out-of-bounds access issue was found in the Linux kernel, all versions through 5.3, in the way Linux kernel's KVM hypervisor implements the Coalesced MMIO write operation. It operates on an MMIO ring buffer 'struct kvm_coalesced_mmio' object, wherein write indices 'ring->first' and 'ring->last' value could be supplied by a host user-space process. An unprivileged host user or process with access to '/dev/kvm' device could use this flaw to crash the host kernel, resulting in a denial of service or potentially escalating privileges on the system.
Solution
linuxrpm-upgrade-redhat-coreos

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