CVE-2021-47062
MEDIUMLinux Kernel 5.11-5.11.20 - NULL Pointer Dereference in KVM SVM VMSA Encryption
Title source: llmDescription
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: SVM: Use online_vcpus, not created_vcpus, to iterate over vCPUs Use the kvm_for_each_vcpu() helper to iterate over vCPUs when encrypting VMSAs for SEV, which effectively switches to use online_vcpus instead of created_vcpus. This fixes a possible null-pointer dereference as created_vcpus does not guarantee a vCPU exists, since it is updated at the very beginning of KVM_CREATE_VCPU. created_vcpus exists to allow the bulk of vCPU creation to run in parallel, while still correctly restricting the max number of max vCPUs.
References (3)
Core 3
Scores
CVSS v3
5.5
EPSS
0.0022
EPSS Percentile
12.7%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-476
Status
published
Products (9)
Linux/Linux
< 5.11
Linux/Linux
5.11
Linux/Linux
5.11.21 - 5.11.*
Linux/Linux
5.12.4 - 5.12.*
Linux/Linux
5.13
Linux/Linux
ad73109ae7ec30d5bfb76be108e304f9f0af4829 - ba7bf5d6336aa9c0d977b161bfa420c56d46ee40
Linux/Linux
ad73109ae7ec30d5bfb76be108e304f9f0af4829 - bd0cced2ae93195668f983d443f7f17e8efd24d2
Linux/Linux
ad73109ae7ec30d5bfb76be108e304f9f0af4829 - c36b16d29f3af5f32fc1b2a3401bf48f71cabee1
linux/linux_kernel
5.11 - 5.11.21
Published
Feb 29, 2024
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026