CVE-2021-47035

Summary

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

iommu/vt-d: Remove WO permissions on second-level paging entries

When the first level page table is used for IOVA translation, it only supports Read-Only and Read-Write permissions. The Write-Only permission is not supported as the PRESENT bit (implying Read permission) should always set. When using second level, we still give separate permissions that allows WriteOnly which seems inconsistent and awkward. We want to have consistent behavior. After moving to 1st level, we don't want things to work sometimes, and break if we use 2nd level for the same mappings. Hence remove this configuration.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinuxb802d070a52a1565b47daaa808872cfbd4a17b01 < 89bd620798704a8805fc9db0d71d7f812cf5b3d2affected
LinuxLinuxb802d070a52a1565b47daaa808872cfbd4a17b01 < 25faff78138933244c678c7fc78f7c0340fa04a0affected
LinuxLinuxb802d070a52a1565b47daaa808872cfbd4a17b01 < 66c24699f266ff310381a9552d3576eea8ad6e20affected
LinuxLinuxb802d070a52a1565b47daaa808872cfbd4a17b01 < eea53c5816889ee8b64544fa2e9311a81184ff9caffected
LinuxLinux5.6affected
LinuxLinux0 < 5.6unaffected
LinuxLinux5.10.38 <= 5.10.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.11.21 <= 5.11.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.12.4 <= 5.12.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.13 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: partial

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