Description
A flaw was discovered in the way that the KVM hypervisor handled instruction emulation for an L2 guest when nested virtualisation is enabled. Under some circumstances, an L2 guest may trick the L0 guest into accessing sensitive L1 resources that should be inaccessible to the L2 guest.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
Oracle Corporation Oracle Linux
7affected6affected
References
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/02/25/3 ↗
- https://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg208259.html ↗
- https://git.kernel.org/linus/07721feee46b4b248402133228235318199b05ec ↗
- https://git.kernel.org/linus/35a571346a94fb93b5b3b6a599675ef3384bc75c ↗
- https://git.kernel.org/linus/e71237d3ff1abf9f3388337cfebf53b96df2020d ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1805135 ↗
- https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2020-5540.html ↗
- https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2020-5542.html ↗
- https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2020-5543.html ↗
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4667 ↗
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00011.html ↗
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00012.html ↗
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00013.html ↗
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4698 ↗