CVE-2021-47226

HIGH

Linux Kernel - Information Disclosure via FPU State Leak on XRSTOR Failure

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/fpu: Invalidate FPU state after a failed XRSTOR from a user buffer Both Intel and AMD consider it to be architecturally valid for XRSTOR to fail with #PF but nonetheless change the register state. The actual conditions under which this might occur are unclear [1], but it seems plausible that this might be triggered if one sibling thread unmaps a page and invalidates the shared TLB while another sibling thread is executing XRSTOR on the page in question. __fpu__restore_sig() can execute XRSTOR while the hardware registers are preserved on behalf of a different victim task (using the fpu_fpregs_owner_ctx mechanism), and, in theory, XRSTOR could fail but modify the registers. If this happens, then there is a window in which __fpu__restore_sig() could schedule out and the victim task could schedule back in without reloading its own FPU registers. This would result in part of the FPU state that __fpu__restore_sig() was attempting to load leaking into the victim task's user-visible state. Invalidate preserved FPU registers on XRSTOR failure to prevent this situation from corrupting any state. [1] Frequent readers of the errata lists might imagine "complex microarchitectural conditions".

Scores

CVSS v3 7.1
EPSS 0.0022
EPSS Percentile 12.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-203
Status published
Products (10)
Linux/Linux < 5.2
Linux/Linux 1d731e731c4cd7cbd3b1aa295f0932e7610da82f - 002665dcba4bbec8c82f0aeb4bd3f44334ed2c14
Linux/Linux 1d731e731c4cd7cbd3b1aa295f0932e7610da82f - a7748e021b9fb7739e3cb88449296539de0b6817
Linux/Linux 1d731e731c4cd7cbd3b1aa295f0932e7610da82f - d8778e393afa421f1f117471144f8ce6deb6953a
Linux/Linux 5.10.46 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux 5.12.13 - 5.12.*
Linux/Linux 5.13
Linux/Linux 5.2
linux/linux_kernel 5.13 rc1 (6 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 5.2 - 5.10.46
Published May 21, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026