CVE-2021-47255

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

21/05/2024

Last modified:

30/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.10 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

7.10

Severity 3.x

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.3 (including)	5.4.128 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.5 (including)	5.10.46 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.11 (including)	5.12.13 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.13:rc1::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.13:rc2::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.13:rc3::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.13:rc4::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.13:rc5::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.13:rc6::::::

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2021-47255

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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