CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-47062
5.5 MEDIUM
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- 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
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ba7bf5d6336aa9c0d977b161bfa420c56d46ee40 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bd0cced2ae93195668f983d443f7f17e8efd24d2 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c36b16d29f3af5f32fc1b2a3401bf48f71cabee1 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ba7bf5d6336aa9c0d977b161bfa420c56d46ee40 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bd0cced2ae93195668f983d443f7f17e8efd24d2 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c36b16d29f3af5f32fc1b2a3401bf48f71cabee1 Patch