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High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Feb 28, 2024· Updated Aug 4, 2026

CVE-2021-46977

CVE-2021-46977

Description

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

KVM: VMX: Disable preemption when probing user return MSRs

Disable preemption when probing a user return MSR via RDSMR/WRMSR. If the MSR holds a different value per logical CPU, the WRMSR could corrupt the host's value if KVM is preempted between the RDMSR and WRMSR, and then rescheduled on a different CPU.

Opportunistically land the helper in common x86, SVM will use the helper in a future commit.

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Affected products

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  • Linux/Kernel4 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 3 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >=5.5,<5.10.38
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.13:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • (no CPE)
    • (no CPE)range: 5.5

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