CVE-2021-38206

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5070-1

Posted Sep 9, 2021

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 5070-1 - Maxim Levitsky and Paolo Bonzini discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation for AMD processors in the Linux kernel allowed a guest VM to disable restrictions on VMLOAD/VMSAVE in a nested guest. An attacker in a guest VM could use this to read or write portions of the host's physical memory. Maxim Levitsky discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation for AMD processors in the Linux kernel did not properly prevent a guest VM from enabling AVIC in nested guest VMs. An attacker in a guest VM could use this to write to portions of the host's physical memory. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, kernel

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2020-26541, CVE-2021-22543, CVE-2021-34693, CVE-2021-3612, CVE-2021-3653, CVE-2021-3656, CVE-2021-38198, CVE-2021-38200, CVE-2021-38206, CVE-2021-38207

SHA-256 | a3a2b8603d4257f8b0d4a21be470c82fa48b4774dc9e390edb98c4d8a1ce252a

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