CVE-2021-47062
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-02-29 22:37
Modified
2024-11-04 11:58
Severity ?
Summary
KVM: SVM: Use online_vcpus, not created_vcpus, to iterate over vCPUs
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ba7bf5d6336aa9c0d977b161bfa420c56d46ee40
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bd0cced2ae93195668f983d443f7f17e8efd24d2
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c36b16d29f3af5f32fc1b2a3401bf48f71cabee1
Impacted products
LinuxLinux
LinuxLinux
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