CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-50115
7.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-11-05
- Last modified
- 2026-08-04
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 8.4 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: nSVM: Ignore nCR3[4:0] when loading PDPTEs from memory
Ignore nCR3[4:0] when loading PDPTEs from memory for nested SVM, as bits
4:0 of CR3 are ignored when PAE paging is used, and thus VMRUN doesn't
enforce 32-byte alignment of nCR3.
In the absolute worst case scenario, failure to ignore bits 4:0 can result
in an out-of-bounds read, e.g. if the target page is at the end of a
memslot, and the VMM isn't using guard pages.
Per the APM:
The CR3 register points to the base address of the page-directory-pointer
table. The page-directory-pointer table is aligned on a 32-byte boundary,
with the low 5 address bits 4:0 assumed to be 0.
And the SDM's much more explicit:
4:0 Ignored
Note, KVM gets this right when loading PDPTRs, it's only the nSVM flow
that is broken.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.2 < 5.10.229)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.170)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.115)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.59)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.11.6)
• linux linux kernel 6.12
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c4adc9b192a0815fe58a62bc0709449416cc884 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/426682afec71ea3f889b972d038238807b9443e4 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/58cb697d80e669c56197f703e188867c8c54c494 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6876793907cbe19d42e9edc8c3315a21e06c32ae Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/76ce386feb14ec9a460784fcd495d8432acce7a5 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f559b2e9c5c5308850544ab59396b7d53cfc67bd Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html lists.debian.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00002.html lists.debian.org