CVE-2021-47226

Technical Description

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

x86/fpu: Invalidate FPU state after a failed XRSTOR from a user buffer

Both Intel and AMD consider it to be architecturally valid for XRSTOR to

fail with #PF but nonetheless change the register state. The actual

conditions under which this might occur are unclear [1], but it seems

plausible that this might be triggered if one sibling thread unmaps a page

and invalidates the shared TLB while another sibling thread is executing

XRSTOR on the page in question.

__fpu__restore_sig() can execute XRSTOR while the hardware registers

are preserved on behalf of a different victim task (using the

fpu_fpregs_owner_ctx mechanism), and, in theory, XRSTOR could fail but

modify the registers.

If this happens, then there is a window in which __fpu__restore_sig()

could schedule out and the victim task could schedule back in without

reloading its own FPU registers. This would result in part of the FPU

state that __fpu__restore_sig()

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from linux. Update linux_kernel to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Affected Products

References