CVE-2021-45464
CVE-2021-45464
This page contains facts from public vulnerability sources. Check the original advisory before updating.
kvmtool through 39181fc allows an out-of-bounds write, related to virtio/balloon.c and virtio/pci.c. This allows a guest OS user to execute arbitrary code on the host machine.
CVSS 8.8 · High · EPSS 0.4% · Fix available
- Published
- Updated
Stack: system
Affected products and versions
n/a
- Versions
- n/a: Affected
No fix published
kvmtool Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS
- Versions
- 0.20150908-1
- 0.20151104-1
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: < 0.20151104-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
Update to 0.20151104-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
kvmtool Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS
- Versions
- 0.20161128-1
- 0.20170904-1
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: < 0.20170904-1ubuntu0.18.04.1~esm1
Update to 0.20170904-1ubuntu0.18.04.1~esm1
kvmtool Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS
- Versions
- 0.20170904-1
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: < 0.20170904-1ubuntu0.20.04.1~esm1
Update to 0.20170904-1ubuntu0.20.04.1~esm1
kvmtool Ubuntu:Pro:22.04:LTS
- Versions
- 0.20170904-1.1
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: < 0.20170904-1.1ubuntu0.1~esm2
Update to 0.20170904-1.1ubuntu0.1~esm2
Original sources
- https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/921419715170164776/921882173517230100/exploit.c
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/will/kvmtool.git/log/
- https://www.kalmarunionen.dk/writeups/2021/hxp-2021/lkvm/
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/will/kvmtool.git/commit/?id=39181fc6429f4e9e71473284940e35857b42772a
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-45464