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BELL-CVE-2023-53756

Affected: Alpaquita:stream: linux-lts

EUVD-2026-312242

fkie_cve-2023-53756

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

KVM: VMX: Fix crash due to uninitialized current_vmcs

KVM enables 'Enlightened VMCS' and 'Enlightened MSR Bitmap' when running as a nested hypervisor on top of Hyper-V. When MSR bitmap is updated, evmcs_touch_msr_bitmap function uses current_vmcs per-cpu variable to mark that the msr bitmap was changed.

vmx_vcpu_create() modifies the msr bitmap via vmx_disable_intercept_for_msr -> vmx_msr_bitmap_l01_changed which in the end calls this function. The function checks for current_vmcs if it is null but the check is insufficient because current_vmcs is not initialized. Because of this, the code might incorrectly write to the structure pointed by current_vmcs value left by another task. Preemption is not disabled, the current task can be preempted and moved to another CPU while current_vmcs is accessed multiple times from evmcs_touch_msr_bitmap() which leads to crash.

The manipulation of MSR bitmaps by callers happens only for vmcs01 so the solution is to use vmx->vmcs01.vmcs instead of current_vmcs.

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000338 PGD 4e1775067 P4D 0 Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI ... RIP: 0010:vmx_msr_bitmap_l01_changed+0x39/0x50 [kvm_intel] ... Call Trace: vmx_disable_intercept_for_msr+0x36/0x260 [kvm_intel] vmx_vcpu_create+0xe6/0x540 [kvm_intel] kvm_arch_vcpu_create+0x1d1/0x2e0 [kvm] kvm_vm_ioctl_create_vcpu+0x178/0x430 [kvm] kvm_vm_ioctl+0x5…

GHSA-5h86-42q5-w9hr

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

KVM: VMX: Fix crash due to uninitialized current_vmcs

The manipulation of MSR bitmaps by callers happens only for vmcs01 so the solution is to use vmx->vmcs01.vmcs instead of current_vmcs.

RHSA-2023:3465 — Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

kernel: net/ulp: use-after-free in listening ULP sockets kernel: udmabuf: improper validation of array index leading to local privilege escalation kernel: netfilter: use-after-free in nf_tables when processing batch requests can lead to privilege escalation kernel: KVM: VMX: Fix crash due to uninitialized current_vmcs

RHSA-2023:6583 — Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

kernel: seg6: fix the iif in the IPv6 socket control block Kernel: race when faulting a device private page in memory manager kernel: use-after-free in l1oip timer handlers kernel: Rate limit overflow messages in r8152 in intr_callback kernel: vmwgfx: use-after-free in vmw_cmd_res_check kernel: vmwgfx: use-after-free in vmw_execbuf_tie_context hw: Intel: Gather Data Sampling (GDS) side channel vulnerability kernel: Information leak in l2cap_parse_conf_req in net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c kernel: perf: Fix perf_pending_task() UaF kernel: gpiolib: fix memory leak in gpiochip_setup_dev() kernel: memcg: fix possible use-after-free in memcg_write_event_control() kernel: mm/khugepaged: invoke MMU notifiers in shmem/file collapse paths kernel: char: tpm: Protect tpm_pm_suspend with locks kernel: ixgbevf: Fix resource leak in ixgbevf_init_module() kernel: dax: make sure inodes are flushed before destroy cache kernel: watch_queue: Actually free the watch kernel: watch_queue: Fix NULL dereference in error cleanup kernel: rtc: pl031: fix rtc features null pointer dereference kernel: tpm: fix reference counting for struct tpm_chip kernel: NFSv4: Don't hold the layoutget locks across multiple RPC calls kernel: xprtrdma: treat all calls not a bcall when bc_serv is NULL kernel: net: ipv6: unexport __init-annotated seg6_hmac_init() kernel: af_unix: Fix a data-race in unix_dgram_peer_wake_me(). kernel: regulator: scmi: Fix refcount leak in scmi_regulator_probe kernel: mm/mempolicy: fix uninit-v…

UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53756

Affected: Ubuntu:16.04:LTS: linux-hwe-edge, Ubuntu:18.04:LTS: linux-aws-5.0, Ubuntu:18.04:LTS: linux-aws-5.3, Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS: linux-aws-5.4, Ubuntu:18.04:LTS: linux-azure, Ubuntu:18.04:LTS: linux-azure-5.3, Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS: linux-azure-5.4, Ubuntu:18.04:LTS: linux-azure-edge, Ubuntu:18.04:LTS: linux-gcp, Ubuntu:18.04:LTS: linux-gcp-5.3 and 136 more

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: VMX: Fix crash due to uninitialized current_vmcs KVM enables 'Enlightened VMCS' and 'Enlightened MSR Bitmap' when running as a nested hypervisor on top of Hyper-V. When MSR bitmap is updated, evmcs_touch_msr_bitmap function uses current_vmcs per-cpu variable to mark that the msr bitmap was changed. vmx_vcpu_create() modifies the msr bitmap via vmx_disable_intercept_for_msr -> vmx_msr_bitmap_l01_changed which in the end calls this function. The function checks for current_vmcs if it is null but the check is insufficient because current_vmcs is not initialized. Because of this, the code might incorrectly write to the structure pointed by current_vmcs value left by another task. Preemption is not disabled, the current task can be preempted and moved to another CPU while current_vmcs is accessed multiple times from evmcs_touch_msr_bitmap() which leads to crash. The manipulation of MSR bitmaps by callers happens only for vmcs01 so the solution is to use vmx->vmcs01.vmcs instead of current_vmcs. BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000338 PGD 4e1775067 P4D 0 Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI ... RIP: 0010:vmx_msr_bitmap_l01_changed+0x39/0x50 [kvm_intel] ... Call Trace: vmx_disable_intercept_for_msr+0x36/0x260 [kvm_intel] vmx_vcpu_create+0xe6/0x540 [kvm_intel] kvm_arch_vcpu_create+0x1d1/0x2e0 [kvm] kvm_vm_ioctl_create_vcpu+0x178/0x430 [kvm] kvm_vm_ioctl+0x53f/0x…

WID-SEC-W-2025-2756 — Linux Kernel: Mehrere Schwachstellen ermöglichen Denial of Service

Ein Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen im Linux Kernel ausnutzen, um einen Denial-of-Service-Zustand zu erzeugen oder weitere, nicht spezifizierte Auswirkungen zu erlangen.