CVE-2021-4093

Summary

CVECVE-2021-4093
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-02-18 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:40:00 UTC
DescriptionA flaw was found in the KVM's AMD code for supporting the Secure Encrypted Virtualization-Encrypted State (SEV-ES). A KVM guest using SEV-ES can trigger out-of-bounds reads and writes in the host kernel via a malicious VMGEXIT for a string I/O instruction (for example, outs or ins) using the exit reason SVM_EXIT_IOIO. This issue results in a crash of the entire system or a potential guest-to-host escape scenario.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-125 | CWE-787

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 20.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 21.10 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 35 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 8.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
2028584 – (CVE-2021-4093) CVE-2021-4093 kernel: KVM: SVM: out-of-bounds read/write in sev_es_string_io MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
2222 - project-zero - Project Zero - Monorail MISC bugs.chromium.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 182722 Debian Security Update for linux (CVE-2021-4093)
  • 198653 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-5265-1)
  • 900669 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (8679)
  • 905815 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (8679-1)
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