Red Hat: CVE-2021-43056: CVE-2021-43056 kernel: ppc: kvm: allows a malicious KVM guest to crash the host (Multiple Advisories)
5
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
10/28/2021
05/14/2022
05/13/2022
03/13/2024
Description
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel for powerpc before 5.14.15. It allows a malicious KVM guest to crash the host, when the host is running on Power8, due to an arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S implementation bug in the handling of the SRR1 register values.
Solution(s)
- redhat-upgrade-kernel
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