cve-2024-26991
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-05-01 05:27
Modified
2024-12-19 08:51
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
KVM: x86/mmu: x86: Don't overflow lpage_info when checking attributes
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/048cc4a028e635d339687ed968985d2d1669494cPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/992b54bd083c5bee24ff7cc35991388ab08598c4Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/048cc4a028e635d339687ed968985d2d1669494cPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/992b54bd083c5bee24ff7cc35991388ab08598c4Patch
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