CVE-2024-43819

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 3.4-6.10.2 - Null Pointer Dereference via KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION on ucontrol VMs

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: kvm: s390: Reject memory region operations for ucontrol VMs This change rejects the KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION and KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION2 ioctls when called on a ucontrol VM. This is necessary since ucontrol VMs have kvm->arch.gmap set to 0 and would thus result in a null pointer dereference further in. Memory management needs to be performed in userspace and using the ioctls KVM_S390_UCAS_MAP and KVM_S390_UCAS_UNMAP. Also improve s390 specific documentation for KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION and KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION2. [[email protected]: commit message spelling fix, subject prefix fix]

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0020
EPSS Percentile 9.5%
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 (8)
linux/Kernel 3.4.0 - 6.10.3linux
Linux/Linux < 3.4
Linux/Linux 27e0393f15fc8bc855c6a888387ff5ffd2181089 - 49c9945c054df4c22008e2bf87ca74d3e2507aa6
Linux/Linux 27e0393f15fc8bc855c6a888387ff5ffd2181089 - 7816e58967d0e6cadce05c8540b47ed027dc2499
Linux/Linux 3.4
Linux/Linux 6.10.3 - 6.10.*
Linux/Linux 6.11
linux/linux_kernel 3.4 - 6.10.3
Published Aug 17, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026