Security Advisory
CVE-2021-43056
5.5
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Description
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel for powerpc before 5.14.15. It allows a malicious KVM guest to crash the host, when the host is running on Power8, due to an arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S implementation bug in the handling of the SRR1 register values.
Published Date
October 28, 2021
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory