# CVE-2024-43819: kvm: s390: Reject memory region operations for ucontrol VMs

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 6.6.160, 6.10.3
- Published: 2024-08-17 · Updated: 2026-10-30

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 3.4
- Kernel (Linux): from 3.4.0, fixed in 6.6.160; from 6.7.0, fixed in 6.10.3

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: kvm: s390: Reject memory region operations for ucontrol VMs This change rejects the KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION and KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION2 ioctls when called on a ucontrol VM. This is necessary since ucontrol VMs have kvm->arch.gmap set to 0 and would thus result in a null pointer dereference further in. Memory management needs to be performed in userspace and using the ioctls KVM_S390_UCAS_MAP and KVM_S390_UCAS_UNMAP. Also improve s390 specific documentation for KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION and KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION2. [frankja@linux.ibm.com: commit message spelling fix, subject prefix fix]

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8a1bbff443a5a22c466d11cbefca9cb361306a9b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/705a8b8cc5a44b206096abb1bfdc8bc43b3c75c7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/49c9945c054df4c22008e2bf87ca74d3e2507aa6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7816e58967d0e6cadce05c8540b47ed027dc2499

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