Security Advisory

CVE-2021-43056

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2021-10-28 03:13:44
Last updated 2024-08-04 03:47:13
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel for powerpc before 5.14.15. It allows a malicious KVM guest to crash the host, when the host is running on Power8, due to an arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S implementation bug in the handling of the SRR1 register values.