Bug 2363722 (CVE-2022-49933)

Summary: CVE-2022-49933 kernel: KVM: VMX: Reset eVMCS controls in VP assist page during hardware disabling
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[REJECTED CVE] In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: VMX: Reset eVMCS controls in VP assist page during hardware disabling
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-05-02 16:03:13 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

KVM: VMX: Reset eVMCS controls in VP assist page during hardware disabling

Reset the eVMCS controls in the per-CPU VP assist page during hardware
disabling instead of waiting until kvm-intel's module exit.  The controls
are activated if and only if KVM creates a VM, i.e. don't need to be
reset if hardware is never enabled.

Doing the reset during hardware disabling will naturally fix a potential
NULL pointer deref bug once KVM disables CPU hotplug while enabling and
disabling hardware (which is necessary to fix a variety of bugs).  If the
kernel is running as the root partition, the VP assist page is unmapped
during CPU hot unplug, and so KVM's clearing of the eVMCS controls needs
to occur with CPU hot(un)plug disabled, otherwise KVM could attempt to
write to a CPU's VP assist page after it's unmapped.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-05-05 05:46:36 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025050200-CVE-2022-49933-2147@gregkh/T

Comment 4 TEJ RATHI 2025-05-29 06:38:27 UTC
This CVE has been rejected by the Linux kernel community. Refer to the announcement: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025052015-REJECTED-c0d0@gregkh/

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