Resource Exhaustion Affecting kernel-bootwrapper package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL7-KERNELBOOTWRAPPER-6326396
- published 29 Feb 2024
- disclosed 28 Feb 2024
Introduced: 28 Feb 2024
CVE-2021-46977 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 kernel-bootwrapper.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-bootwrapper package and not the kernel-bootwrapper package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: VMX: Disable preemption when probing user return MSRs
Disable preemption when probing a user return MSR via RDSMR/WRMSR. If the MSR holds a different value per logical CPU, the WRMSR could corrupt the host's value if KVM is preempted between the RDMSR and WRMSR, and then rescheduled on a different CPU.
Opportunistically land the helper in common x86, SVM will use the helper in a future commit.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-46977
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/31f29749ee970c251b3a7e5b914108425940d089
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5104d7ffcf24749939bea7fdb5378d186473f890
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5adcdeb57007ccf8ab7ac20bf787ffb6fafb1a94
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e3ea1895df719c4ef87862501bb10d95f4177bed