CVE-2024-58083

Technical Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

KVM: Explicitly verify target vCPU is online in kvm_get_vcpu()

Explicitly verify the target vCPU is fully online _prior_ to clamping the

index in kvm_get_vcpu(). If the index is "bad", the nospec clamping will

generate '0', i.e. KVM will return vCPU0 instead of NULL.

In practice, the bug is unlikely to cause problems, as it will only come

into play if userspace or the guest is buggy or misbehaving, e.g. KVM may

send interrupts to vCPU0 instead of dropping them on the floor.

However, returning vCPU0 when it shouldn't exist per online_vcpus is

problematic now that KVM uses an xarray for the vCPUs array, as KVM needs

to insert into the xarray before publishing the vCPU to userspace (see

commit c5b077549136 ("KVM: Convert the kvm->vcpus array to a xarray")),

i.e. before vCPU creation is guaranteed to succeed.

As a result, incorrectly providing access to vCPU0 will trigger a

use-after-free if vCPU0 is dereferenced and

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from linux. Update linux_kernel to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Affected Products

References