CVE-2024-46707
kernel: KVM: arm64: Make ICC_*SGI*_EL1 undef in the absence of a vGICv3
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · September 13, 2024
Updated · November 21, 2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: arm64: Make ICC_SGI_EL1 undef in the absence of a vGICv3
On a system with a GICv3, if a guest hasn't been configured with GICv3 and that the host is not capable of GICv2 emulation, a write to any of the ICC_SGI_EL1 registers is trapped to EL2.
We therefore try to emulate the SGI access, only to hit a NULL pointer as no private interrupt is allocated (no GIC, remember?).
The obvious fix is to give the guest what it deserves, in the shape of a UNDEF exception.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-416 · Use After Free