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CVE-2021-47255

HIGH CVSS: 7.1 Published: 2024-05-21 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: kvm: LAPIC: Restore guard to prevent illegal APIC register access Per the SDM, "any access that touches bytes 4 through 15 of an APIC register may cause undefined behavior and must not be executed." Worse, such an access in kvm_lapic_reg_read can result in a leak of kernel stack contents. Prior to commit 01402cf81051 ("kvm: LAPIC: write down valid APIC registers"), such an access was explicitly disallowed. Restore the guard that was removed in that commit.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References