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| author | Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com> | 2017-09-12 13:02:54 -0700 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2017-10-05 09:41:46 +0200 |
| commit | 21a638c5efd6ec7a10441bfb94e15e5288920f07 (patch) | |
| tree | a3e77b7191e068d19dc28161211d1f5ec75092be /include/linux/timerqueue.h | |
| parent | 7520be6a454c28955e711fdb49c81519bc537b39 (diff) | |
kvm: nVMX: Don't allow L2 to access the hardware CR8
commit 51aa68e7d57e3217192d88ce90fd5b8ef29ec94f upstream.
If L1 does not specify the "use TPR shadow" VM-execution control in
vmcs12, then L0 must specify the "CR8-load exiting" and "CR8-store
exiting" VM-execution controls in vmcs02. Failure to do so will give
the L2 VM unrestricted read/write access to the hardware CR8.
This fixes CVE-2017-12154.
Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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