{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2024-08-17T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: kvm: s390: Reject memory region operations for ucontrol VMs",
    "id" : "2305477",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2305477"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "5.5",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
    "status" : "draft"
  },
  "details" : [ "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\nkvm: s390: Reject memory region operations for ucontrol VMs\nThis change rejects the KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION and\nKVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION2 ioctls when called on a ucontrol VM.\nThis is necessary since ucontrol VMs have kvm->arch.gmap set to 0 and\nwould thus result in a null pointer dereference further in.\nMemory management needs to be performed in userspace and using the\nioctls KVM_S390_UCAS_MAP and KVM_S390_UCAS_UNMAP.\nAlso improve s390 specific documentation for KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION\nand KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION2.\n[frankja@linux.ibm.com: commit message spelling fix, subject prefix fix]", "A potential NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the Linux kernel. This issue may result in a crash." ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-43819\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-43819\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024081723-CVE-2024-43819-88ce@gregkh/T" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2024-43819",
  "csaw" : false
}