CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-55881
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-01-11
- 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
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: x86: Play nice with protected guests in complete_hypercall_exit()
Use is_64_bit_hypercall() instead of is_64_bit_mode() to detect a 64-bit
hypercall when completing said hypercall. For guests with protected state,
e.g. SEV-ES and SEV-SNP, KVM must assume the hypercall was made in 64-bit
mode as the vCPU state needed to detect 64-bit mode is unavailable.
Hacking the sev_smoke_test selftest to generate a KVM_HC_MAP_GPA_RANGE
hypercall via VMGEXIT trips the WARN:
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 273 PID: 326626 at arch/x86/kvm/x86.h:180 complete_hypercall_exit+0x44/0xe0 [kvm]
Modules linked in: kvm_amd kvm ... [last unloaded: kvm]
CPU: 273 UID: 0 PID: 326626 Comm: sev_smoke_test Not tainted 6.12.0-smp--392e932fa0f3-feat #470
Hardware name: Google Astoria/astoria, BIOS 0.20240617.0-0 06/17/2024
RIP: 0010:complete_hypercall_exit+0x44/0xe0 [kvm]
Call Trace:
<TASK>
kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x2400/0x2720 [kvm]
kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x54f/0x630 [kvm]
__se_sys_ioctl+0x6b/0xc0
do_syscall_64+0x83/0x160
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
</TASK>
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.15.5 < 5.15.176)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16.1 < 6.1.122)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.68)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.7)
• linux linux kernel 5.16
• linux linux kernel 6.13
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0840d360a8909c722fb62459f42836afe32ededb Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/22b5c2acd65dbe949032f619d4758a35a82fffc3 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d2634ec0d1dbe8f4b511cf5261f327c6a76f4b6 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7ed4db315094963de0678a8adfd43c46471b9349 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9b42d1e8e4fe9dc631162c04caa69b0d1860b0f0 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00001.html lists.debian.org