CVE-2021-47255: Linux Kernel

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: kvm: LAPIC: Restore guard to prevent illegal APIC register access Per the SDM, "any access that touches bytes 4 through 15 of an APIC register may cause undefined behavior and must not be executed." Worse, such an access in kvm_lapic_reg_read can result in a leak of kernel stack contents. Prior to commit 01402cf81051 ("kvm: LAPIC: write down valid APIC registers"), such an access was explicitly disallowed. Restore the guard that was removed in that commit.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.3, before 5.4.128 (fixed in 5.4.128); from 5.5, before 5.10.46 (fixed in 5.10.46); from 5.11, before 5.12.13 (fixed in 5.12.13); version 5.13 only

Published 2024-05-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.