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CVE-2023-52597

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CVE-2023-52597

Published: Mar 6, 2024

Modified: May 11, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: s390: fix setting of fpc register kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_set_fpu() allows to set the floating point control (fpc) register of a guest cpu. The new value is tested for validity by temporarily loading it into the fpc register. This may lead to corruption of the fpc register of the host process: if an interrupt happens while the value is temporarily loaded into the fpc register, and within interrupt context floating point or vector registers are used, the current fp/vx registers are saved with save_fpu_regs() assuming they belong to user space and will be loaded into fp/vx registers when returning to user space. test_fp_ctl() restores the original user space / host process fpc register value, however it will be discarded, when returning to user space. In result the host process will incorrectly continue to run with the value that was supposed to be used for a guest cpu. Fix this by simply removing the test. There is another test right before the SIE context is entered which will handles invalid values. This results in a change of behaviour: invalid values will now be accepted instead of that the ioctl fails with -EINVAL. This seems to be acceptable, given that this interface is most likely not used anymore, and this is in addition the same behaviour implemented with the memory mapped interface (replace invalid values with zero) - see sync_regs() in kvm-s390.c.

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
4725c86055f5bbdcdfe47199c0715881893a2c79 - < 3a04410b0bc7e056e0843ac598825dd359246d18
affected
4725c86055f5bbdcdfe47199c0715881893a2c79 - < 5e63c9ae8055109d805aacdaf2a4fe2c3b371ba1
affected
4725c86055f5bbdcdfe47199c0715881893a2c79 - < 150a3a3871490e8c454ffbac2e60abeafcecff99
affected
4725c86055f5bbdcdfe47199c0715881893a2c79 - < 732a3bea7aba5b15026ea42d14953c3425cc7dc2
affected
4725c86055f5bbdcdfe47199c0715881893a2c79 - < 0671f42a9c1084db10d68ac347d08dbf6689ecb3

+3 more versions

Linux

Linux

affected
3.13
unaffected
0 - < 3.13
unaffected
4.19.307 - <= 4.19.*
unaffected
5.4.269 - <= 5.4.*
unaffected
5.10.210 - <= 5.10.*

+5 more versions

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