CVE-2024-35804

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This\nfixes a bug where KVM effectively corrupts guest memory during live\nmigration by writing to guest memory without informing userspace that the\npage is dirty.\n\nMarking the page dirty got unintentionally dropped when KVM's emulated\nCMPXCHG was converted to do a user access. Before that, KVM explicitly\nmapped the guest page into kernel memory, and marked the page dirty during\nthe unmap phase.\n\nMark the page dirty even if the CMPXCHG fails, as the old data is written\nback on failure, i.e. the page is still written. The value written is\nguaranteed to be the same because the operation is atomic, but KVM's ABI\nis that all writes are dirty logged regardless of the value written. And\nmore importantly, that's what KVM did before the buggy commit.\n\nHuge kudos to the folks on the Cc list (and many others), who did all the\nactual work of triaging and debugging.\n\nbase-commit: 6769ea8da8a93ed4630f1ce64df6aafcaabfce64"}], "metrics": [{"cvssV3_1": {"version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H", "baseScore": 8.8, "baseSeverity": "HIGH"}, "scenarios": [{"lang": "en", "value": "AV:L - Reaching `emulator_cmpxchg_emulated()` requires executing instructions inside a guest on the affected host \u2014 a locked RMW against a write-tracked/emulated gfn \u2014 which is local code execution on the vulnerable component, not a network-delivered input. No remote protocol handler in the host reaches this path.\nAC:L - The missing dirty-marking is unconditional and deterministic \u2014 no race, no timing window, and no dependence on memory layout the attacker cannot influence; every emulated atomic write during dirty logging is silently dropped. Live migration and dirty-ring/framebuffer dirty tracking are routine, automated, recurring operations in cloud and virtualization deployments, so an attacker running a shadow-paged or nested workload only has to keep it running for the corruption to occur, and Google observed the defect in ordinary production migrations.\nPR:L - From the host KVM's perspective the attacker only needs the ability to run code in a guest, which is a low-privileged position on the vulnerable component. 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The write also escapes the host's dirty-tracking ABI, so state changes cross out of the host hypervisor's accounting boundary into the guest.\nC:H - The pages funneled through this path are predominantly write-tracked guest page tables, so a dropped update leaves the migrated guest with a stale PTE that still maps a physical page since reassigned to another process or the kernel, yielding an arbitrary-read window across intra-guest boundaries. Any page whose emulated atomic write is lost also retains its previous contents into a new owner's security context, exposing data the new owner should never see.\nI:H - Guest memory is silently corrupted: writes the guest architecturally committed are reverted on the migrated VM, which for page-table pages is a rollback of mapping and permission state (write-protect and accessed/dirty bits) into an arbitrary-write primitive over other processes' or the kernel's memory. 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The write also escapes the host's dirty-tracking ABI, so state changes cross out of the host hypervisor's accounting boundary into the guest.\nC:H - The pages funneled through this path are predominantly write-tracked guest page tables, so a dropped update leaves the migrated guest with a stale PTE that still maps a physical page since reassigned to another process or the kernel, yielding an arbitrary-read window across intra-guest boundaries. Any page whose emulated atomic write is lost also retains its previous contents into a new owner's security context, exposing data the new owner should never see.\nI:H - Guest memory is silently corrupted: writes the guest architecturally committed are reverted on the migrated VM, which for page-table pages is a rollback of mapping and permission state (write-protect and accessed/dirty bits) into an arbitrary-write primitive over other processes' or the kernel's memory. 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