Vulnerability CVE-2021-30178

Vulnerability Name:

CVE-2021-30178 (CCN-199534)

Assigned:

2021-02-26

Published:

2021-02-26

Updated:

2021-06-04

Summary:

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.11.11. synic_get in arch/x86/kvm/hyperv.c has a NULL pointer dereference for certain accesses to the SynIC Hyper-V context, aka CID-919f4ebc5987.

CVSS v3 Severity:

5.5 Medium (CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
4.8 Medium (Temporal CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C)

Exploitability Metrics:	Attack Vector (AV): Local Attack Complexity (AC): Low Privileges Required (PR): Low User Interaction (UI): None
Scope:	Scope (S): Unchanged
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): None Integrity (I): None Availibility (A): High

6.2 Medium (CCN CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
5.4 Medium (CCN Temporal CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C)

Exploitability Metrics:	Attack Vector (AV): Local Attack Complexity (AC): Low Privileges Required (PR): None User Interaction (UI): None
Scope:	Scope (S): Unchanged
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): None Integrity (I): None Availibility (A): High

CVSS v2 Severity:

2.1 Low (CVSS v2 Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Exploitability Metrics:	Access Vector (AV): Local Access Complexity (AC): Low Authentication (Au): None
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): None Integrity (I): None Availibility (A): Partial

4.9 Medium (CCN CVSS v2 Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

Exploitability Metrics:	Access Vector (AV): Local Access Complexity (AC): Low Athentication (Au): None
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): None Integrity (I): None Availibility (A): Complete

Vulnerability Type:

CWE-476

Vulnerability Consequences:

Denial of Service

References:

Source: MITRE
Type: CNA
CVE-2021-30178

Source: XF
Type: UNKNOWN
linux-kernel-cve202130178-dos(199534)

Source: CCN
Type: Linux Kernel GIT Repository
KVM: x86: hyper-v: Fix Hyper-V context null-ptr-deref

Source: MISC
Type: Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=919f4ebc598701670e80e31573a58f1f2d2bf918

Source: FEDORA
Type: Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
FEDORA-2021-8b64847a44

Source: FEDORA
Type: Third Party Advisory
FEDORA-2021-57a7ba61f8

Source: FEDORA
Type: Third Party Advisory
FEDORA-2021-e71c033f88

Vulnerable Configuration:

Configuration 1:

cpe:/o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (Version <= 5.11.11)

Configuration 2:

cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:32:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Denotes that component is vulnerable

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