CVE-2021-43056

Summary

CVECVE-2021-43056
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-10-28 04:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:39:00 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in the Linux kernel for powerpc before 5.14.15. It allows a malicious KVM guest to crash the host, when the host is running on Power8, due to an arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S implementation bug in the handling of the SRR1 register values.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 33 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 34 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 35 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
oss-security - Re: Linux kernel: powerpc: KVM guest can trigger host crash on Power8 MLIST www.openwall.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: kernel-5.14.15-100.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree MISC git.kernel.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: kernel-5.14.15-300.fc35 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: kernel-5.14.15-100.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
Linux kernel: powerpc: KVM guest can trigger host crash on Power8 MISC lore.kernel.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: kernel-5.14.15-200.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.14.15 MISC cdn.kernel.org
Linux kernel: powerpc: KVM guest can trigger host crash on Power8 lore.kernel.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: kernel-5.14.15-200.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: kernel-5.14.15-300.fc35 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 159825 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for kernel (ELSA-2022-1988)
  • 179695 Debian Security Update for linux (CVE-2021-43056)
  • 198569 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (OEM 5.10) Vulnerabilities (USN-5139-1)
  • 198589 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (OEM) Vulnerabilities (USN-5165-1)
  • 198618 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-5210-1)
  • 198621 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-5208-1)
  • 198627 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (OEM) Vulnerabilities (USN-5218-1)
  • 240298 Red Hat Update for kernel security (RHSA-2022:1988)
  • 282035 Fedora Security Update for kernel (FEDORA-2021-4320606094)
  • 282036 Fedora Security Update for kernel (FEDORA-2021-4fed2b55c4)
  • 751336 OpenSUSE Security Update for the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-SU-2021:1460-1)
  • 751342 OpenSUSE Security Update for the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-SU-2021:3641-1)
  • 751346 OpenSUSE Security Update for the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-SU-2021:3655-1)
  • 751349 OpenSUSE Security Update for the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-SU-2021:1477-1)
  • 751353 OpenSUSE Security Update for the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-SU-2021:3675-1)
  • 940517 AlmaLinux Security Update for kernel (ALSA-2022:1988)
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