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Red Hat: CVE-2024-40989: kernel: KVM: arm64: Disassociate vcpus from redistributor region on teardown (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2024-40989: kernel: KVM: arm64: Disassociate vcpus from redistributor region on teardown (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:P/I:P/A:C)
Published
07/12/2024
Created
09/26/2024
Added
09/25/2024
Modified
09/25/2024

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: arm64: Disassociate vcpus from redistributor region on teardown When tearing down a redistributor region, make sure we don't have any dangling pointer to that region stored in a vcpu.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-kernel
  • redhat-upgrade-kernel-rt

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