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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2021-47110

Change History

New CVE Received by NIST 3/15/2024 5:15:06 PM

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Added Description

								
							
							
						
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

x86/kvm: Disable kvmclock on all CPUs on shutdown

Currenly, we disable kvmclock from machine_shutdown() hook and this
only happens for boot CPU. We need to disable it for all CPUs to
guard against memory corruption e.g. on restore from hibernate.

Note, writing '0' to kvmclock MSR doesn't clear memory location, it
just prevents hypervisor from updating the location so for the short
while after write and while CPU is still alive, the clock remains usable
and correct so we don't need to switch to some other clocksource.
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kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1df2dc09926f61319116c80ee85701df33577d70 [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3b0becf8b1ecf642a9edaf4c9628ffc641e490d6 [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9084fe1b3572664ad276f427dce575f580c9799a [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c02027b5742b5aa804ef08a4a9db433295533046 [No types assigned]