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CVE-2021-4093

HIGH CVSS: 8.8 Published: 2022-02-18 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

A flaw was found in the KVM's AMD code for supporting the Secure Encrypted Virtualization-Encrypted State (SEV-ES). A KVM guest using SEV-ES can trigger out-of-bounds reads and writes in the host kernel via a malicious VMGEXIT for a string I/O instruction (for example, outs or ins) using the exit reason SVM_EXIT_IOIO. This issue results in a crash of the entire system or a potential guest-to-host escape scenario.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux KernelCanonical Ubuntu LinuxFedoraproject FedoraRedhat Enterprise Linux

Weakness Type

CWE-125, CWE-125, CWE-787

References