CVE-2022-49154 (GCVE-0-2022-49154)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-02-26 01:55
Modified
2026-08-05 08:54
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: SVM: fix panic on out-of-bounds guest IRQ As guest_irq is coming from KVM_IRQFD API call, it may trigger crash in svm_update_pi_irte() due to out-of-bounds: crash> bt PID: 22218 TASK: ffff951a6ad74980 CPU: 73 COMMAND: "vcpu8" #0 [ffffb1ba6707fa40] machine_kexec at ffffffff8565b397 #1 [ffffb1ba6707fa90] __crash_kexec at ffffffff85788a6d #2 [ffffb1ba6707fb58] crash_kexec at ffffffff8578995d #3 [ffffb1ba6707fb70] oops_end at ffffffff85623c0d #4 [ffffb1ba6707fb90] no_context at ffffffff856692c9 #5 [ffffb1ba6707fbf8] exc_page_fault at ffffffff85f95b51 #6 [ffffb1ba6707fc50] asm_exc_page_fault at ffffffff86000ace [exception RIP: svm_update_pi_irte+227] RIP: ffffffffc0761b53 RSP: ffffb1ba6707fd08 RFLAGS: 00010086 RAX: ffffb1ba6707fd78 RBX: ffffb1ba66d91000 RCX: 0000000000000001 RDX: 00003c803f63f1c0 RSI: 000000000000019a RDI: ffffb1ba66db2ab8 RBP: 000000000000019a R8: 0000000000000040 R9: ffff94ca41b82200 R10: ffffffffffffffcf R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000001 R13: 0000000000000001 R14: ffffffffffffffcf R15: 000000000000005f ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff CS: 0010 SS: 0018 #7 [ffffb1ba6707fdb8] kvm_irq_routing_update at ffffffffc09f19a1 [kvm] #8 [ffffb1ba6707fde0] kvm_set_irq_routing at ffffffffc09f2133 [kvm] #9 [ffffb1ba6707fe18] kvm_vm_ioctl at ffffffffc09ef544 [kvm] RIP: 00007f143c36488b RSP: 00007f143a4e04b8 RFLAGS: 00000246 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f05780041d0 RCX: 00007f143c36488b RDX: 00007f05780041d0 RSI: 000000004008ae6a RDI: 0000000000000020 RBP: 00000000000004e8 R8: 0000000000000008 R9: 00007f05780041e0 R10: 00007f0578004560 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00000000000004e0 R13: 000000000000001a R14: 00007f1424001c60 R15: 00007f0578003bc0 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010 CS: 0033 SS: 002b Vmx have been fix this in commit 3a8b0677fc61 (KVM: VMX: Do not BUG() on out-of-bounds guest IRQ), so we can just copy source from that to fix this.
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              "value": "AV:L - The bug is reached only through local KVM VM ioctls (KVM_IRQFD / KVM_SET_GSI_ROUTING \u2192 kvm_irq_routing_update \u2192 avic_pi_update_irte) on /dev/kvm; it does not process network packets or remote protocol data.\nAC:L - An attacker who can open /dev/kvm fully controls the GSI/irqfd values and routing-update sequence and can deterministically force guest_irq \u003e= nr_rt_entries on AMD hosts with IRQ posting; no race or attacker-uncontrollable layout is required for the crash path.\nPR:L - /dev/kvm is mode 0660 group kvm (with uaccess); unprivileged users in the kvm group\u2014or cloud tenants running QEMU with VFIO passthrough\u2014can exercise the path without real init-namespace root, matching the related CVE-2017-1000252 PR:L assessment.\nUI:N - The attacker triggers the fault entirely with their own KVM ioctls; no separate victim mount, open, or other interactive action is required.\nS:U - This is a host-userspace VMM ioctl hitting the host kernel, not a guest-to-host escape; impact stays in the same OS/kernel authority (standard local kernel DoS/corruption), unlike a true KVM VM-escape Scope Changed case.\nC:H - WARN_ON does not stop execution, so an attacker-chosen guest_irq performs an unbounded out-of-bounds read of irq_rt-\u003emap[] heap memory as an hlist_head and may walk/treat adjacent objects as kvm_kernel_irq_routing_entry structures, which per guidance is High confidentiality impact.\nI:H - A successful forged-entry walk can drive irq_set_vcpu_affinity and svm_ir_list_add/del on attacker-influenced routing/IOMMU state (type confusion / list mutation from OOB-derived pointers), which is High integrity impact under the overestimate rule.\nA:H - The documented failure is an exc_page_fault / machine check path through svm_update_pi_irte leading to oops/panic (and host hang in the related VMX BUG_ON case), which is full availability impact and can be retried."
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