CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-21779
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-02-27
- Last modified
- 2026-10-15
- 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: x86: Reject Hyper-V's SEND_IPI hypercalls if local APIC isn't in-kernel
Advertise support for Hyper-V's SEND_IPI and SEND_IPI_EX hypercalls if and
only if the local API is emulated/virtualized by KVM, and explicitly reject
said hypercalls if the local APIC is emulated in userspace, i.e. don't rely
on userspace to opt-in to KVM_CAP_HYPERV_ENFORCE_CPUID.
Rejecting SEND_IPI and SEND_IPI_EX fixes a NULL-pointer dereference if
Hyper-V enlightenments are exposed to the guest without an in-kernel local
APIC:
dump_stack+0xbe/0xfd
__kasan_report.cold+0x34/0x84
kasan_report+0x3a/0x50
__apic_accept_irq+0x3a/0x5c0
kvm_hv_send_ipi.isra.0+0x34e/0x820
kvm_hv_hypercall+0x8d9/0x9d0
kvm_emulate_hypercall+0x506/0x7e0
__vmx_handle_exit+0x283/0xb60
vmx_handle_exit+0x1d/0xd0
vcpu_enter_guest+0x16b0/0x24c0
vcpu_run+0xc0/0x550
kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x170/0x6d0
kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x413/0xb20
__se_sys_ioctl+0x111/0x160
do_syscal1_64+0x30/0x40
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x67/0xd1
Note, checking the sending vCPU is sufficient, as the per-VM irqchip_mode
can't be modified after vCPUs are created, i.e. if one vCPU has an
in-kernel local APIC, then all vCPUs have an in-kernel local APIC.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 6.1.129)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.79)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.16)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.13.4)
• linux linux kernel 6.14
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/45fa526b0f5a34492ed0536c3cdf88b78380e4de git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5393cf22312418262679eaadb130d608c75fe690 Mailing List, Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/61224533f2b61e252b03e214195d27d64b22989a git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/874ff13c73c45ecb38cb82191e8c1d523f0dc81b Mailing List, Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8de7f100bb5989d9c3627d3a223ee1c863f3b69 Mailing List, Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aca8be4403fb90db7adaf63830e27ebe787a76e8 Mailing List, Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ca29f58ca374c40a0e69c5306fc5c940a0069074 Mailing List, Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00028.html lists.debian.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00030.html lists.debian.org
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-784472.html cert-portal.siemens.com