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DEBIAN-CVE-2021-43056

DEBIAN-CVE-2021-43056 PUBLISHED CVSS 5.5 MEDIUM

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel for powerpc before 5.14.15. It allows a malicious KVM guest to crash the host, when the host is running on Power8, due to an arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S implementation bug in the handling of the SRR1 register values.

Risk Scores

CVSS v3.1
5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:12linux0, 0, 0
Debian:11linux5.10.70-1, 5.10.70-1~bpo10+1, 5.10.46-5
Debian:13linux0, 0, 0
Debian:14linux0, 0, 0

Timeline

  • Oct 28, 2021 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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