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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2024-43819

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 8/17/2024 6:15:08 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

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

kvm: s390: Reject memory region operations for ucontrol VMs

This change rejects the KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION and
KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION2 ioctls when called on a ucontrol VM.
This is necessary since ucontrol VMs have kvm->arch.gmap set to 0 and
would thus result in a null pointer dereference further in.
Memory management needs to be performed in userspace and using the
ioctls KVM_S390_UCAS_MAP and KVM_S390_UCAS_UNMAP.

Also improve s390 specific documentation for KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION
and KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION2.

[frankja@linux.ibm.com: commit message spelling fix, subject prefix fix]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/49c9945c054df4c22008e2bf87ca74d3e2507aa6 [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7816e58967d0e6cadce05c8540b47ed027dc2499 [No types assigned]