CVE-2021-47450

HIGH

Linux Kernel 5.13-5.14.14 - Use-After-Free in KVM Host Stage-2 PGD Refcount

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: arm64: Fix host stage-2 PGD refcount The KVM page-table library refcounts the pages of concatenated stage-2 PGDs individually. However, when running KVM in protected mode, the host's stage-2 PGD is currently managed by EL2 as a single high-order compound page, which can cause the refcount of the tail pages to reach 0 when they shouldn't, hence corrupting the page-table. Fix this by introducing a new hyp_split_page() helper in the EL2 page allocator (matching the kernel's split_page() function), and make use of it from host_s2_zalloc_pages_exact().

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0021
EPSS Percentile 10.8%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

Status published
Products (8)
Linux/Linux < 5.13
Linux/Linux 1025c8c0c6accfcbdc8f52ca1940160f65cd87d6 - 1d58a17ef54599506d44c45ac95be27273a4d2b1
Linux/Linux 1025c8c0c6accfcbdc8f52ca1940160f65cd87d6 - b372264c66ef78f2cab44e877fbd765ad6d24c39
Linux/Linux 5.13
Linux/Linux 5.14.15 - 5.14.*
Linux/Linux 5.15
linux/linux_kernel 5.15 rc1 (6 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 5.13 - 5.14.15
Published May 22, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026