CVE-2021-47407 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: x86: Handle SRCU initialization failure during page track init Check the return of init_srcu_struct(), which can fail due to OOM, when initializing the page track mechanism. Lack of checking leads to a NULL pointer deref found by a modified syzkaller. [Move the call towards the beginning of kvm_arch_init_vm. - Paolo]

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

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References

Link	Providers
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4664318f73e496cd22c71b10888e75434a123e23
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/deb2949417677649e2413266d7ce8c2ff73952b4
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eb7511bf9182292ef1df1082d23039e856d1ddfb
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024052151-CVE-2021-47407-fd65@gregkh/T
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-47407
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47407

History

Wed, 11 Sep 2024 13:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Linux

Published: 2024-05-21T15:03:59.991Z

Updated: 2025-05-04T07:10:19.034Z

Reserved: 2024-05-21T14:58:30.817Z

Link: CVE-2021-47407

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T05:39:58.900Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2024-05-21T15:15:26.247

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:36:04.980

Link: CVE-2021-47407

Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2024-05-21T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-47407 - Bugzilla

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