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CVE-2021-22543

Updated on 26 May 2021

Severity

7.8 High severity

Details

CVSS score
7.8
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE ID
Links
NISTCIRCLRHELUbuntu

Overview

About vulnerability

An issue was discovered in Linux: KVM through Improper handling of VM_IO|VM_PFNMAP vmas in KVM can bypass RO checks and can lead to pages being freed while still accessible by the VMM and guest. This allows users with the ability to start and control a VM to read/write random pages of memory and can result in local privilege escalation.

Details

Affected product:
AlmaLinux 8 , Amazon Linux 2 , CentOS 6 , CentOS 6 ELS , CentOS 6 plus , CentOS 7 , CentOS 7 ELS , CentOS 7 plus , CentOS 8 , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CloudLinux 6 ELS , CloudLinux OS 6 , CloudLinux OS 6h , CloudLinux OS 7 , CloudLinux OS 7h , CloudLinux OS 8 , Debian 10 , Debian 10 cloud , Debian 9 , Endurance 7 eig 3.10 , Endurance 7 eig 4.14 , OEL 8 Dell , OpenVZ 6 , Oracle Linux 6 ELS , Oracle Linux 8 , Proofpoint , Proxmox VE 5 , Proxmox VE 6 , RHEL 6 , RHEL 7 , RHEL 8 , Rocky Linux 8 , Scientific 6 , Ubuntu 14.04 , Ubuntu 14.04 ESM , Ubuntu 16.04 , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 16.04 ESM , Ubuntu 18.04 , Ubuntu 20.04 , Upstream 4.14 , Upstream 4.19
Affected packages:
linux-aws-5.4 @ - (+70 more)
An issue was discovered in Linux: KVM through Improper handling of VM_IO|VM_PFNMAP vmas in KVM can bypass RO checks and can lead to pages being freed while still accessible by the VMM and guest. This allows users with the ability to start and control a VM to read/write random pages of memory and can result in local privilege escalation.

Fixes