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CVE-2021-47062

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CVE-2021-47062

Published: Feb 29, 2024

Modified: May 11, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: SVM: Use online_vcpus, not created_vcpus, to iterate over vCPUs Use the kvm_for_each_vcpu() helper to iterate over vCPUs when encrypting VMSAs for SEV, which effectively switches to use online_vcpus instead of created_vcpus. This fixes a possible null-pointer dereference as created_vcpus does not guarantee a vCPU exists, since it is updated at the very beginning of KVM_CREATE_VCPU. created_vcpus exists to allow the bulk of vCPU creation to run in parallel, while still correctly restricting the max number of max vCPUs.

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
ad73109ae7ec30d5bfb76be108e304f9f0af4829 - < bd0cced2ae93195668f983d443f7f17e8efd24d2
affected
ad73109ae7ec30d5bfb76be108e304f9f0af4829 - < ba7bf5d6336aa9c0d977b161bfa420c56d46ee40
affected
ad73109ae7ec30d5bfb76be108e304f9f0af4829 - < c36b16d29f3af5f32fc1b2a3401bf48f71cabee1

Linux

Linux

affected
5.11
unaffected
0 - < 5.11
unaffected
5.11.21 - <= 5.11.*
unaffected
5.12.4 - <= 5.12.*
unaffected
5.13 - <= *

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