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GSD-2021-43056

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:23
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/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S implementation bug in the handling of the SRR1 register values.
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      "https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-43056.html",
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      "https://linux.oracle.com/cve/CVE-2021-43056.html",
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