Bug 2266919 (CVE-2021-46978)

Summary:	CVE-2021-46978 kernel: KVM: nVMX: Always make an attempt to map eVMCS after migration
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Avinash Hanwate <ahanwate>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security <prodsec-ir-bot>
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Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	acaringi, allarkin, aquini, bhu, chwhite, cye, cyin, dbohanno, debarbos, dfreiber, drow, dvlasenk, esandeen, ezulian, hkrzesin, jarod, jburrell, jdenham, jfaracco, jforbes, jlelli, joe.lawrence, jshortt, jstancek, jwyatt, kcarcia, ldoskova, lgoncalv, lzampier, mleitner, mmilgram, mstowell, nmurray, ptalbert, rparrazo, rrobaina, rvrbovsk, rysulliv, scweaver, sidakwo, sukulkar, tglozar, tyberry, vkumar, wcosta, williams, wmealing, ycote, ykopkova, zhijwang
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	kernel 5.10.38, kernel 5.11.22, kernel 5.12.5, kernel 5.13	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
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Bug Depends On:	2266920
Bug Blocks:	2266939

Description Avinash Hanwate 2024-02-29 08:51:08 UTC

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

KVM: nVMX: Always make an attempt to map eVMCS after migration

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2021-46978 to this issue.

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024022822-CVE-2021-46978-3516@gregkh/T/#u

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2024-02-29 08:51:45 UTC

Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2266920]

Comment 5 Justin M. Forbes 2024-02-29 21:37:29 UTC

This was fixed for Fedora with the 5.12.5 stable kernel updates.

Comment 6 Alex 2024-06-09 16:59:05 UTC

The result of automatic check (that is developed by Alexander Larkin) for this CVE-2021-46978 is: CHECK	Maybe valid. Check manually. with impact LOW (that is an approximation based on flags VIRT INIT  ; these flags parsed automatically based on patch data). Such automatic check happens only for Low/Moderates (and only when not from reporter, but parsing already existing CVE). Highs always checked manually (I check it myself and then we check it again in Remediation team). In rare cases some of the Moderates could be increased to High later.