CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-47062

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2024-02-29 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2024-02-29
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-476

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: SVM: Use online_vcpus, not created_vcpus, to iterate over vCPUs Use the kvm_for_each_vcpu() helper to iterate over vCPUs when encrypting VMSAs for SEV, which effectively switches to use online_vcpus instead of created_vcpus. This fixes a possible null-pointer dereference as created_vcpus does not guarantee a vCPU exists, since it is updated at the very beginning of KVM_CREATE_VCPU. created_vcpus exists to allow the bulk of vCPU creation to run in parallel, while still correctly restricting the max number of max vCPUs.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.11.21) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.12 < 5.12.4)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References