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Commit 51aa68e7 authored by Jim Mattson's avatar Jim Mattson Committed by Paolo Bonzini
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kvm: nVMX: Don't allow L2 to access the hardware CR8



If L1 does not specify the "use TPR shadow" VM-execution control in
vmcs12, then L0 must specify the "CR8-load exiting" and "CR8-store
exiting" VM-execution controls in vmcs02. Failure to do so will give
the L2 VM unrestricted read/write access to the hardware CR8.

This fixes CVE-2017-12154.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
parent 488e32f1
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