In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/pseries: Fix scv instruction crash with kexec kexec on pseries disables AIL (reloc_on_exc), required for scv instruction support, before other CPUs have been shut down. This means they can execute scv instructions after AIL is disabled, which causes an interrupt at an unexpected entry location that crashes the kernel. Change the kexec sequence to disable AIL after other CPUs have been brought down. As a refresher, the real-mode scv interrupt vector is 0x17000, and the fixed-location head code probably couldn't easily deal with implementing such high addresses so it was just decided not to support that interrupt at all.
History

Wed, 11 Sep 2024 18:30:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Wed, 11 Sep 2024 13:30:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Fri, 16 Aug 2024 18:45:00 +0000

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Weaknesses CWE-99

Thu, 08 Aug 2024 23:00:00 +0000

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Moderate

threat_severity

Low


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Linux

Published: 2024-07-30T07:47:10.703Z

Updated: 2024-09-11T17:34:32.851Z

Reserved: 2024-07-30T07:40:12.250Z

Link: CVE-2024-42230

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T04:54:32.571Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-07-30T08:15:08.193

Modified: 2024-07-30T19:32:51.137

Link: CVE-2024-42230

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2024-07-30T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2024-42230 - Bugzilla