CVE-2021-43056

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-43056
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-43056.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2021-43056
Downstream
Related
Published
2021-10-28T04:15:08.210Z
Modified
2026-03-15T14:45:13.915862Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel for powerpc before 5.14.15. It allows a malicious KVM guest to crash the host, when the host is running on Power8, due to an arch/powerpc/kvm/book3shvrmhandlers.S implementation bug in the handling of the SRR1 register values.

References

Affected packages

Git /

Affected ranges

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-43056.json"
unresolved_ranges
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "5.2"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "5.4.15"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "33"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "34"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "35"
            }
        ]
    }
]