CVE-2021-4032
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CVE-2021-4032 is a medium-severity vulnerability rated 4.4/10 on the CVSS scale. A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's KVM subsystem in arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c kvm_free_lapic when a failure allocation was detected. In this flaw the KVM subsystem may crash the kernel due to mishandling of memory errors that happens during VCPU construction, which allows an attacker with special user privilege to cause a denial of service. EPSS estimates a 0.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Description
A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's KVM subsystem in arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c kvm_free_lapic when a failure allocation was detected. In this flaw the KVM subsystem may crash the kernel due to mishandling of memory errors that happens during VCPU construction, which allows an attacker with special user privilege to cause a denial of service. This flaw affects kernel versions prior to 5.15 rc7.
Metrics
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness Enumeration
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux Kernel | <= 5.14 |
| Linux | Linux Kernel | 5.15 |
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2027403Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f7d8a19f9a056a05c5c509fa65af472a322abfeeExploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/9/8/587Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2027403Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f7d8a19f9a056a05c5c509fa65af472a322abfeeExploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/9/8/587Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Timeline
- Published
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- Status
- Modified
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