Vulnerability · Published Apr 6, 2021 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2021-30178
Medium 5.5
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 24% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 76.5% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.11.11. synic_get in arch/x86/kvm/hyperv.c has a NULL pointer dereference for certain accesses to the SynIC Hyper-V context, aka CID-919f4ebc5987.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=919f4ebc598701670e80e31573a58f1f2d2bf918 x_refsource_MISC
- FEDORA-2021-e71c033f88 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA
- FEDORA-2021-57a7ba61f8 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA
- FEDORA-2021-8b64847a44 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA