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CVE-2024-43819

kvm: s390: Reject memory region operations for ucontrol VMs

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Descriptions

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

kvm: s390: Reject memory region operations for ucontrol VMs

This change rejects the KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION and
KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION2 ioctls when called on a ucontrol VM.
This is necessary since ucontrol VMs have kvm->arch.gmap set to 0 and
would thus result in a null pointer dereference further in.
Memory management needs to be performed in userspace and using the
ioctls KVM_S390_UCAS_MAP and KVM_S390_UCAS_UNMAP.

Also improve s390 specific documentation for KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION
and KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION2.

[frankja@linux.ibm.com: commit message spelling fix, subject prefix fix]

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Timeline
  • 2024-08-17 CVE Reserved
  • 2024-08-17 CVE Published
  • 2024-08-18 EPSS Updated
  • 2024-11-05 CVE Updated
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>= 3.4 < 6.10.3
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Linux
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>= 3.4 < 6.11
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