CVE-2024-55881
Published: Jan 11, 2025
Modified: May 23, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: x86: Play nice with protected guests in complete_hypercall_exit() Use is_64_bit_hypercall() instead of is_64_bit_mode() to detect a 64-bit hypercall when completing said hypercall. For guests with protected state, e.g. SEV-ES and SEV-SNP, KVM must assume the hypercall was made in 64-bit mode as the vCPU state needed to detect 64-bit mode is unavailable. Hacking the sev_smoke_test selftest to generate a KVM_HC_MAP_GPA_RANGE hypercall via VMGEXIT trips the WARN: ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 273 PID: 326626 at arch/x86/kvm/x86.h:180 complete_hypercall_exit+0x44/0xe0 [kvm] Modules linked in: kvm_amd kvm ... [last unloaded: kvm] CPU: 273 UID: 0 PID: 326626 Comm: sev_smoke_test Not tainted 6.12.0-smp--392e932fa0f3-feat #470 Hardware name: Google Astoria/astoria, BIOS 0.20240617.0-0 06/17/2024 RIP: 0010:complete_hypercall_exit+0x44/0xe0 [kvm] Call Trace: <TASK> kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x2400/0x2720 [kvm] kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x54f/0x630 [kvm] __se_sys_ioctl+0x6b/0xc0 do_syscall_64+0x83/0x160 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e </TASK> ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 5969e2435cbd7f0ce8c28d717bfc39987ee8d8f1 - < 0840d360a8909c722fb62459f42836afe32ededbaffected b5aead0064f33ae5e693a364e3204fe1c0ac9af2 - < 7ed4db315094963de0678a8adfd43c46471b9349affected b5aead0064f33ae5e693a364e3204fe1c0ac9af2 - < 3d2634ec0d1dbe8f4b511cf5261f327c6a76f4b6affected b5aead0064f33ae5e693a364e3204fe1c0ac9af2 - < 22b5c2acd65dbe949032f619d4758a35a82fffc3affected b5aead0064f33ae5e693a364e3204fe1c0ac9af2 - < 9b42d1e8e4fe9dc631162c04caa69b0d1860b0f0+1 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 5.16unaffected 0 - < 5.16unaffected 5.15.176 - <= 5.15.*unaffected 6.1.122 - <= 6.1.*unaffected 6.6.68 - <= 6.6.*+2 more versions |
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