Out-of-bounds Write Affecting kernel-devel-azure package, versions <4.12.14-8.16.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.54% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-KERNELDEVELAZURE-2731280
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed14 Oct 2019

Introduced: 14 Oct 2019

CVE-2019-14821  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.1 kernel-devel-azure to version 4.12.14-8.16.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-devel-azure package and not the kernel-devel-azure package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.1 relevant fixed versions and status.

An out-of-bounds access issue was found in the Linux kernel, all versions through 5.3, in the way Linux kernel's KVM hypervisor implements the Coalesced MMIO write operation. It operates on an MMIO ring buffer 'struct kvm_coalesced_mmio' object, wherein write indices 'ring->first' and 'ring->last' value could be supplied by a host user-space process. An unprivileged host user or process with access to '/dev/kvm' device could use this flaw to crash the host kernel, resulting in a denial of service or potentially escalating privileges on the system.

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