Ubuntu: (CVE-2021-47255): linux vulnerability
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: kvm: LAPIC: Restore guard to prevent illegal APIC register access Per the SDM, "any access that touches bytes 4 through 15 of an APIC register may cause undefined behavior and must not be executed." Worse, such an access in kvm_lapic_reg_read can result in a leak of kernel stack contents. Prior to commit 01402cf81051 ("kvm: LAPIC: write down valid APIC registers"), such an access was explicitly disallowed. Restore the guard that was removed in that commit.
Solution(s)
- ubuntu-upgrade-linux
- ubuntu-upgrade-linux-aws
- ubuntu-upgrade-linux-aws-5-4
- ubuntu-upgrade-linux-azure
- ubuntu-upgrade-linux-azure-5-4
- ubuntu-upgrade-linux-bluefield
- ubuntu-upgrade-linux-gcp
- ubuntu-upgrade-linux-gcp-5-4
- ubuntu-upgrade-linux-gkeop
- ubuntu-upgrade-linux-hwe-5-4
- ubuntu-upgrade-linux-kvm
- ubuntu-upgrade-linux-oracle
- ubuntu-upgrade-linux-oracle-5-4
- ubuntu-upgrade-linux-raspi
- ubuntu-upgrade-linux-raspi-5-4
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