CVE-2021-47450
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: arm64: Fix host stage-2 PGD refcount The KVM page-table library refcounts the pages of…
Impact
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: arm64: Fix host stage-2 PGD refcount The KVM page-table library refcounts the pages of concatenated stage-2 PGDs individually. However, when running KVM in protected mode, the host's stage-2 PGD is currently managed by EL2 as a single high-order compound page, which can cause the refcount of the tail pages to reach 0 when they shouldn't, hence corrupting the page-table. Fix this by introducing a new hyp_split_page() helper in the EL2 page allocator (matching the kernel's split_page() function), and make use of it from host_s2_zalloc_pages_exact().
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux Kernel | from 5.13 before 5.14.15 Version 5.15 |
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1d58a17ef54599506d44c45ac95be27273a4d2b1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b372264c66ef78f2cab44e877fbd765ad6d24c39
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1d58a17ef54599506d44c45ac95be27273a4d2b1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b372264c66ef78f2cab44e877fbd765ad6d24c39