CVE-2021-47110
HIGHLinux Kernel < 5.4.125 - Incomplete Cleanup in KVM Clock Shutdown
Title source: llmDescription
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/kvm: Disable kvmclock on all CPUs on shutdown Currenly, we disable kvmclock from machine_shutdown() hook and this only happens for boot CPU. We need to disable it for all CPUs to guard against memory corruption e.g. on restore from hibernate. Note, writing '0' to kvmclock MSR doesn't clear memory location, it just prevents hypervisor from updating the location so for the short while after write and while CPU is still alive, the clock remains usable and correct so we don't need to switch to some other clocksource.
References (4)
Core 4
Core References
Scores
CVSS v3
7.1
EPSS
0.0024
EPSS Percentile
15.4%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-459
Status
published
Products (12)
Linux/Linux
< 2.6.26
Linux/Linux
1e977aa12dd4f80688b1f243762212e75c6d7fe8 - 1df2dc09926f61319116c80ee85701df33577d70
Linux/Linux
1e977aa12dd4f80688b1f243762212e75c6d7fe8 - 3b0becf8b1ecf642a9edaf4c9628ffc641e490d6
Linux/Linux
1e977aa12dd4f80688b1f243762212e75c6d7fe8 - 9084fe1b3572664ad276f427dce575f580c9799a
Linux/Linux
1e977aa12dd4f80688b1f243762212e75c6d7fe8 - c02027b5742b5aa804ef08a4a9db433295533046
Linux/Linux
2.6.26
Linux/Linux
5.10.43 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux
5.12.10 - 5.12.*
Linux/Linux
5.13
Linux/Linux
5.4.125 - 5.4.*
... and 2 more
Published
Mar 15, 2024
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026