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CVE-2021-47390

Disclosure Date: May 21, 2024
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Description

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

KVM: x86: Fix stack-out-of-bounds memory access from ioapic_write_indirect()

KASAN reports the following issue:

BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in kvm_make_vcpus_request_mask+0x174/0x440 [kvm]
Read of size 8 at addr ffffc9001364f638 by task qemu-kvm/4798

CPU: 0 PID: 4798 Comm: qemu-kvm Tainted: G X ————– —-
Hardware name: AMD Corporation DAYTONA_X/DAYTONA_X, BIOS RYM0081C 07/13/2020
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0xa5/0xe6
print_address_description.constprop.0+0x18/0x130
? kvm_make_vcpus_request_mask+0x174/0x440 [kvm]
__kasan_report.cold+0x7f/0x114
? kvm_make_vcpus_request_mask+0x174/0x440 [kvm]
kasan_report+0x38/0x50
kasan_check_range+0xf5/0x1d0
kvm_make_vcpus_request_mask+0x174/0x440 [kvm]
kvm_make_scan_ioapic_request_mask+0x84/0xc0 [kvm]
? kvm_arch_exit+0x110/0x110 [kvm]
? sched_clock+0x5/0x10
ioapic_write_indirect+0x59f/0x9e0 [kvm]
? static_obj+0xc0/0xc0
? __lock_acquired+0x1d2/0x8c0
? kvm_ioapic_eoi_inject_work+0x120/0x120 [kvm]

The problem appears to be that ‘vcpu_bitmap’ is allocated as a single long
on stack and it should really be KVM_MAX_VCPUS long. We also seem to clear
the lower 16 bits of it with bitmap_zero() for no particular reason (my
guess would be that ‘bitmap’ and ‘vcpu_bitmap’ variables in
kvm_bitmap_or_dest_vcpus() caused the confusion: while the later is indeed
16-bit long, the later should accommodate all possible vCPUs).

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CVSS V3 Severity and Metrics
Base Score:
7.1 High
Impact Score:
5.2
Exploitability Score:
1.8
Vector:
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector (AV):
Local
Attack Complexity (AC):
Low
Privileges Required (PR):
Low
User Interaction (UI):
None
Scope (S):
Unchanged
Confidentiality (C):
High
Integrity (I):
None
Availability (A):
High

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