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Vulnerabilities CVE-2021-47450

CVE-2021-47450

High
Open
TLP:CLEAR

KVM: arm64: Fix host stage-2 PGD refcount

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Description

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().

Details

CVSS Score
8.8
EPSS Score
0.21%

10.9th percentile

CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Confidence
90%
Published
May 22, 2024
Last Modified
Aug 5, 2026
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