CVE-2021-4093

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    CVE-2021-4093

    Published: 18 Feb 2022Last Modified: 14 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    Details: A flaw was found in the KVM's AMD code for supporting the Secure Encrypted Virtualization-Encrypted State (SEV-ES). A KVM guest using SEV-ES can trigger out-of-bounds reads and writes in the host kernel via a malicious VMGEXIT for a string I/O instruction (for example, outs or ins) using the exit reason SVM_EXIT_IOIO. This issue results in a crash of the entire system or a potential guest-to-host escape scenario.

    References: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=2222, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2028584

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