CVE-2021-47255
HIGHLinux Kernel 5.3 - Information Disclosure via APIC Register Access
Title source: llmDescription
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: kvm: LAPIC: Restore guard to prevent illegal APIC register access Per the SDM, "any access that touches bytes 4 through 15 of an APIC register may cause undefined behavior and must not be executed." Worse, such an access in kvm_lapic_reg_read can result in a leak of kernel stack contents. Prior to commit 01402cf81051 ("kvm: LAPIC: write down valid APIC registers"), such an access was explicitly disallowed. Restore the guard that was removed in that commit.
References (4)
Core 4
Core References
Scores
CVSS v3
7.1
EPSS
0.0024
EPSS Percentile
15.6%
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
Status
published
Products (12)
Linux/Linux
< 5.3
Linux/Linux
01402cf81051f796dac7c60ca11d6147153ca46a - 018685461a5b9a9a70e664ac77aef0d7415a3fd5
Linux/Linux
01402cf81051f796dac7c60ca11d6147153ca46a - 218bf772bddd221489c38dde6ef8e917131161f6
Linux/Linux
01402cf81051f796dac7c60ca11d6147153ca46a - a2aff09807fbe4018c269d3773a629949058b210
Linux/Linux
01402cf81051f796dac7c60ca11d6147153ca46a - bf99ea52970caeb4583bdba1192c1f9b53b12c84
Linux/Linux
5.10.46 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux
5.12.13 - 5.12.*
Linux/Linux
5.13
Linux/Linux
5.3
Linux/Linux
5.4.128 - 5.4.*
... and 2 more
Published
May 21, 2024
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026