Description
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel for powerpc before 5.14.15. It allows a malicious KVM guest to crash the host, when the host is running on Power8, due to an arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S implementation bug in the handling of the SRR1 register values.
Published: 2021-10-28
Score: 5.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-30009 An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel for powerpc before 5.14.15. It allows a malicious KVM guest to crash the host, when the host is running on Power8, due to an arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S implementation bug in the handling of the SRR1 register values.
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Fedoraproject Fedora
Linux Linux Kernel
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T03:47:13.219Z

Reserved: 2021-10-28T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-43056

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-10-28T04:15:08.210

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:28:36.663

Link: CVE-2021-43056

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2021-10-25T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-43056 - Bugzilla

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