CVE-2021-4032

kernel: kvm: mishandling of memory error during VCPU construction can lead to DoS

Published Jan 21, 2022 CVSS 3.1 · 4.4 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
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.

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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-33933 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.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
redhat
Published
Updated
Aug 3, 2024, 5:16 PM
Reserved
Nov 29, 2021, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Jan 21, 2022, 7:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 4:18 AM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Sep 8, 2021, 12:00 AM