Security Advisory

CVE-2021-4095

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2022-03-08 14:05:00
Last updated 2024-08-03 17:16:03
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

A NULL pointer dereference was found in the Linux kernels KVM when dirty ring logging is enabled without an active vCPU context. An unprivileged local attacker on the host may use this flaw to cause a kernel oops condition and thus a denial of service by issuing a KVM_XEN_HVM_SET_ATTR ioctl. This flaw affects Linux kernel versions prior to 5.17-rc1.