Upstream information

CVE-2018-18021 at MITRE

Description

arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c in KVM in the Linux kernel before 4.18.12 on the arm64 platform mishandles the KVM_SET_ON_REG ioctl. This is exploitable by attackers who can create virtual machines. An attacker can arbitrarily redirect the hypervisor flow of control (with full register control). An attacker can also cause a denial of service (hypervisor panic) via an illegal exception return. This occurs because of insufficient restrictions on userspace access to the core register file, and because PSTATE.M validation does not prevent unintended execution modes.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having low severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 3.6
Vector AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial
CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database SUSE
Base Score 7.1 3.9
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Attack Vector Local Local
Attack Complexity Low High
Privileges Required Low High
User Interaction None None
Scope Unchanged Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None Low
Integrity Impact High Low
Availability Impact High Low
CVSSv3 Version 3 3
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1110998 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.


Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products under general support and receiving all security fixes.
SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 kernel-default Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1 kernel-default Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2 kernel-default Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 12 SP5 kernel-source-rt Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP3 kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 kernel-default Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS kernel-default Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS kernel-source Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 kernel-default Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
Products under Long Term Service Pack support and receiving important and critical security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 kernel-default Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 kernel-source Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 kernel-source-azure Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1 kernel-default Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1 kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1-ESPOS kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1-LTSS kernel-default Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1-LTSS kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1-LTSS kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2 kernel-default Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2 kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-ESPOS kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-LTSS kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3 kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-ESPOS kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS kernel-source Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-LTSS kernel-default Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-LTSS kernel-source Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP2 kernel-default Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP2 kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP3 kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 SP2 kernel-default Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 SP2 kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 SP3 kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL kernel-default Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL kernel-source Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 kernel-default Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2-LTSS kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3-LTSS kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-ESPOS kernel-default Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-ESPOS kernel-source Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Business Critical Linux 15 SP1 kernel-default Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Business Critical Linux 15 SP1 kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Business Critical Linux 15 SP1 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 kernel-default Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 kernel-source Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 kernel-source-azure Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP1 kernel-default Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP1 kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP1 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2 kernel-default Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2 kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3 kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
HPE Helion OpenStack 8 kernel-default Already fixed
HPE Helion OpenStack 8 kernel-source Already fixed
HPE Helion OpenStack 8 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SLES for SAP Applications 11 SP3 kernel-default Not affected
SLES for SAP Applications 11 SP3 kernel-source Not affected
SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0 kernel-default Already fixed
SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0 kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Enterprise Storage 5 kernel-default Already fixed
SUSE Enterprise Storage 5 kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Enterprise Storage 5 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Enterprise Storage 6 kernel-default Already fixed
SUSE Enterprise Storage 6 kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Enterprise Storage 6 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Enterprise Storage 7 kernel-default Already fixed
SUSE Enterprise Storage 7 kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Enterprise Storage 7 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 kernel-source Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1 kernel-source Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2 kernel-source Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3 kernel-default Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3 kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP4 kernel-default Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP4 kernel-source Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 kernel-default Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 kernel-source Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP1 kernel-default Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP1 kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP2 kernel-default Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP2 kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP3 kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP4 kernel-default Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP4 kernel-source Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 15 kernel-livepatch-SLE15_Update_8 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.0 kernel-default Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.0 kernel-rt Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 kernel-default Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 kernel-source Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP1 kernel-default Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP1 kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 kernel-default Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 kernel-source Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 SP1 kernel-default Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 SP1 kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Public Cloud 15 kernel-source-azure Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Public Cloud 15 SP1 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Public Cloud 15 SP2 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Public Cloud 15 SP3 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service 11 SP3 kernel-default Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service 11 SP3 kernel-source Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service Image Server 12 SP2 kernel-default Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service Image Server 12 SP2 kernel-source Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 12 SP4 kernel-source-rt Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP1 kernel-source-rt Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP2 kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP2 kernel-source-rt Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 kernel-source Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 LTSS kernel-default Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 LTSS kernel-source Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-LTSS kernel-source Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 kernel-source Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 LTSS kernel-default Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 LTSS kernel-source Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS kernel-default Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS kernel-source Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 kernel-source Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1 kernel-source Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1-LTSS kernel-default Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1-LTSS kernel-source Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 kernel-source Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-ESPOS kernel-default Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-ESPOS kernel-source Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-LTSS kernel-default Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-LTSS kernel-source Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 kernel-default Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-BCL kernel-default Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-BCL kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-BCL kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-ESPOS kernel-default Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-ESPOS kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-ESPOS kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-LTSS kernel-default Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-LTSS kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-LTSS kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 kernel-default Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 kernel-source Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 kernel-source-azure Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-ESPOS kernel-default Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-ESPOS kernel-source Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-ESPOS kernel-source-azure Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-LTSS kernel-default Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-LTSS kernel-source Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-LTSS kernel-source-azure Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 kernel-default Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 kernel-source Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 kernel-source-azure Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 kernel-default Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1-BCL kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1-LTSS kernel-default Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1-LTSS kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1-LTSS kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2-BCL kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3-BCL kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS kernel-default Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS kernel-source Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 kernel-source Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 kernel-default Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 kernel-source Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1 kernel-source Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 kernel-default Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 kernel-source Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 kernel-default Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 kernel-default Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 kernel-source Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 kernel-source-azure Affected
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.0 kernel-default Already fixed
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.0 kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.0 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.1 kernel-default Already fixed
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.1 kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.1 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.2 kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.2 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.0 kernel-default Already fixed
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.0 kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.0 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.1 kernel-default Already fixed
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.1 kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.1 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.2 kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.2 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Manager Server 4.0 kernel-default Already fixed
SUSE Manager Server 4.0 kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Manager Server 4.0 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Manager Server 4.1 kernel-default Already fixed
SUSE Manager Server 4.1 kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Manager Server 4.1 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Manager Server 4.2 kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Manager Server 4.2 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7 kernel-default Not affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7 kernel-source Not affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 kernel-default Already fixed
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9 kernel-default Affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9 kernel-source Affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9 kernel-source-azure Affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 kernel-default Already fixed
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9 kernel-default Affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9 kernel-source Affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9 kernel-source-azure Affected
SUSE Real Time Module 15 SP1 kernel-source-rt Already fixed
SUSE Real Time Module 15 SP2 kernel-source-rt Already fixed


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Sun Oct 7 09:15:15 2018
CVE page last modified: Thu Feb 1 01:31:25 2024