Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2019-7222  

An information leakage issue was found in the way Linux kernel's KVM hypervisor handled page fault exceptions while emulating instructions like VMXON, VMCLEAR, VMPTRLD, and VMWRITE with memory address as an operand. It occurs if the operand is a mmio address, as the returned exception object holds uninitialized stack memory contents. A guest user/process could use this flaw to leak host's stack memory contents to a guest.

Severity Medium

Remote No

Type Information disclosure

Description

An information leakage issue was found in the way Linux kernel's KVM hypervisor handled page fault exceptions while emulating instructions like VMXON, VMCLEAR, VMPTRLD, and VMWRITE with memory address as an operand. It occurs if the operand is a mmio address, as the returned exception object holds uninitialized stack memory contents. A guest user/process could use this flaw to leak host's stack memory contents to a guest.

AVG-850 linux 4.20.arch4-1 Critical Vulnerable

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1759
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=353c0956a618a07ba4bbe7ad00ff29fe70e8412a