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{"affected_release": [{"advisory": "RHSA-2024:11486", "cpe": "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9", "package": "kernel-0:5.14.0-503.19.1.el9_5", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9", "release_date": "2024-12-19T00:00:00Z"}, {"advisory": "RHSA-2024:11486", "cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9", "package": "kernel-0:5.14.0-503.19.1.el9_5", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9", "release_date": "2024-12-19T00:00:00Z"}], "bugzilla": {"description": "kernel: KVM: nSVM: Ignore nCR3[4:0] when loading PDPTEs from memory", "id": "2323955", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2323955"}, "csaw": false, "cvss3": {"cvss3_base_score": "4.7", "cvss3_scoring_vector": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N", "status": "verified"}, "cwe": "CWE-125", "details": ["In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\nKVM: nSVM: Ignore nCR3[4:0] when loading PDPTEs from memory\nIgnore nCR3[4:0] when loading PDPTEs from memory for nested SVM, as bits\n4:0 of CR3 are ignored when PAE paging is used, and thus VMRUN doesn't\nenforce 32-byte alignment of nCR3.\nIn the absolute worst case scenario, failure to ignore bits 4:0 can result\nin an out-of-bounds read, e.g. if the target page is at the end of a\nmemslot, and the VMM isn't using guard pages.\nPer the APM:\nThe CR3 register points to the base address of the page-directory-pointer\ntable. The page-directory-pointer table is aligned on a 32-byte boundary,\nwith the low 5 address bits 4:0 assumed to be 0.\nAnd the SDM's much more explicit:\n4:0 Ignored\nNote, KVM gets this right when loading PDPTRs, it's only the nSVM flow\nthat is broken."], "mitigation": {"lang": "en:us", "value": "To mitigate this issue, prevent module kvm-amd from being loaded. Please see https://access.redhat.com/solutions/41278 for how to blacklist a kernel module to prevent it from loading automatically."}, "name": "CVE-2024-50115", "package_state": [{"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel-rt", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8", "fix_state": "Will not fix", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8", "fix_state": "Will not fix", "package_name": "kernel-rt", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9", "fix_state": "Affected", "package_name": "kernel-rt", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9"}], "public_date": "2024-11-05T00:00:00Z", "references": ["https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-50115\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-50115\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024110555-CVE-2024-50115-9fae@gregkh/T"], "threat_severity": "Moderate"}

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