CVE-2021-43056
Moderate
CVE-2021-43056
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/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S implementation bug in the handling of the SRR1 register values.
Exploit probability
0.3%
Published
October 28, 2021
Required by
Not available
Last source change
March 15, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2021-43056
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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/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S implementation bug in the handling of the SRR1 register values.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/10/28/1
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.14.15
- https://git.kernel.org/linus/cdeb5d7d890e14f3b70e8087e745c4a6a7d9f337
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AA7EAPPKWG4LMTQQLNNSKATY6ST2KQFE/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BBM4FP3IT3JZ2O7EBS7TEOG657N4ZGRE/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RRAIS3PG4EV5WFLYESR6FXWM4BJJGWVA/
- https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/87pmrtbbdt.fsf%40mpe.ellerman.id.au/T/#u