CVE detail

CVE-2021-47110 — CVE-2021-47110

Published 2024-03-15 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor linux · Product linux_kernel · Source nvd
HIGH
severity
CVSS-derived band
7.1
CVSS v3
0–10 scale
0.0024
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
16.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
NOT LISTED
CISA KEV
known exploited catalog

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/kvm: Disable kvmclock on all CPUs on shutdown Currenly, we disable kvmclock from machine_shutdown() hook and this only happens for boot CPU. We need to disable it for all CPUs to guard against memory corruption e.g. on restore from hibernate. Note, writing '0' to kvmclock MSR doesn't clear memory location, it just prevents hypervisor from updating the location so for the short while after write and while CPU is still alive, the clock remains usable and correct so we don't need to switch to some other clocksource.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

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