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Linux Linux — KVM: x86: Mark target gfn of emulated atomic instruction as dirty
AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV
L L L N U N N H 5.5 .0023 14.6 —
AFFECTED
Product Versions Fixed
Linux d97c0667c1e61ded6639117b4b9584a9c12b7e66 – —
Linux 5.19 – 5.15.154
TIMELINE
May 17 Reserved by Linux
May 17 Published (CNA: Linux)
Aug 4 RESCORED — CVE-2024-35804 (Linux). CVSS 8.8 → 5.5 (NVD).
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: x86: Mark target gfn of emulated atomic instruction as dirty
When emulating an atomic access on behalf of the guest, mark the target
gfn dirty if the CMPXCHG by KVM is attempted and doesn't fault. This
fixes a bug where KVM effectively corrupts guest memory during live
migration by writing to guest memory without informing userspace that the
page is dirty.
Marking the page dirty got unintentionally dropped when KVM's emulated
CMPXCHG was converted to do a user access. Before that, KVM explicitly
mapped the guest page into kernel memory, and marked the page dirty during
the unmap phase.
Mark the page dirty even if the CMPXCHG fails, as the old data is written
back on failure, i.e. the page is still written. The value written is
guaranteed to be the same because the operation is atomic, but KVM's ABI
is that all writes are dirty logged regardless of the value written. And
more importantly, that's what KVM did before the buggy commit.
Huge kudos to the folks on the Cc list (and many others), who did all the
actual work of triaging and debugging.
base-commit: 6769ea8da8a93ed4630f1ce64df6aafcaabfce64
Lifecycle
Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
| Date | Event | Detail |
| May 17, 2024 | Reserved | Reserved by Linux |
| May 17, 2024 | Published | Published (CNA: Linux) |
| August 4, 2026 | RESCORED | RESCORED — CVE-2024-35804 (Linux). CVSS 8.8 → 5.5 (NVD). |
Affected
Affected products and packages — 2 rows
| Vendor | Product / Package | Ecosystem | Version introduced | Fixed |
| Linux | Linux | — | d97c0667c1e61ded6639117b4b9584a9c12b7e66 | — |
| Linux | Linux | — | 5.19 | 5.15.154 |
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