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LIN1024-1486 : Security Advisory - linux - CVE-2021-47407

Created: May 21, 2024    Updated: Jan 7, 2026
Resolved Date: May 22, 2024
Found In Version: 10.24.33.1
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux LTS 24
Component/s: Kernel

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

KVM: x86: Handle SRCU initialization failure during page track init

Check the return of init_srcu_struct(), which can fail due to OOM, when
initializing the page track mechanism.  Lack of checking leads to a NULL
pointer deref found by a modified syzkaller.

Move the call towards the beginning of kvm_arch_init_vm. - Paolo]

CREATE(Triage):(User=admin) [CVE-2021-47407 (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-47407)