CVE Catalog

CVE-2024-43819

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.29%

21th percentile - higher than 21% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the s390 KVM subsystem now rejects the KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION and KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION2 ioctls when called on ucontrol VMs. Previously these could cause a NULL pointer dereference because kvm->arch.gmap is set to 0; memory management must be done in userspace via KVM_S390_UCAS_MAP and KVM_S390_UCAS_UNMAP.

Risk Assessment

Could lead to a kernel crash (panic) on s390 KVM hosts, causing unavailability of virtual machines and services.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix or apply the patch provided by your distribution.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: kvm: s390: Reject memory region operations for ucontrol VMs This change rejects the KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION and KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION2 ioctls when called on a ucontrol VM. This is necessary since ucontrol VMs have kvm->arch.gmap set to 0 and would thus result in a null pointer dereference further in. Memory management needs to be performed in userspace and using the ioctls KVM_S390_UCAS_MAP and KVM_S390_UCAS_UNMAP. Also improve s390 specific documentation for KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION and KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION2. [[email protected]: commit message spelling fix, subject prefix fix]

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