Security Advisory
CVE-2021-47407
5.5
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: x86: Handle SRCU initialization failure during page track init
Check the return of init_srcu_struct(), which can fail due to OOM, when
initializing the page track mechanism. Lack of checking leads to a NULL
pointer deref found by a modified syzkaller.
[Move the call towards the beginning of kvm_arch_init_vm. - Paolo]
Published Date
May 21, 2024
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory