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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2024-50115

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 11/05/2024 1:15:14 PM

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Added Description

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

KVM: nSVM: Ignore nCR3[4:0] when loading PDPTEs from memory

Ignore nCR3[4:0] when loading PDPTEs from memory for nested SVM, as bits
4:0 of CR3 are ignored when PAE paging is used, and thus VMRUN doesn't
enforce 32-byte alignment of nCR3.

In the absolute worst case scenario, failure to ignore bits 4:0 can result
in an out-of-bounds read, e.g. if the target page is at the end of a
memslot, and the VMM isn't using guard pages.

Per the APM:

  The CR3 register points to the base address of the page-directory-pointer
  table. The page-directory-pointer table is aligned on a 32-byte boundary,
  with the low 5 address bits 4:0 assumed to be 0.

And the SDM's much more explicit:

  4:0    Ignored

Note, KVM gets this right when loading PDPTRs, it's only the nSVM flow
that is broken.
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c4adc9b192a0815fe58a62bc0709449416cc884 [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/426682afec71ea3f889b972d038238807b9443e4 [No types assigned]
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kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/58cb697d80e669c56197f703e188867c8c54c494 [No types assigned]
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kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6876793907cbe19d42e9edc8c3315a21e06c32ae [No types assigned]
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kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f559b2e9c5c5308850544ab59396b7d53cfc67bd [No types assigned]