# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2021-47390"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-05-21T15:03:48.883Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:47:35.643Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:36.661Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47390"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47390.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47390"
title: "KVM: x86: Fix stack-out-of-bounds memory access from ioapic_write_indirect()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nKVM: x86: Fix stack-out-of-bounds memory access from ioapic_write_indirect()\n\nKASAN reports the following issue:\n\n BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in kvm_make_vcpus_request_mask+0x174/0x440 [kvm]\n Read of size 8 at addr ffffc9001364f638 by task qemu-kvm/4798\n\n CPU: 0 PID: 4798 Comm: qemu-kvm Tainted: G               X --------- ---\n Hardware name: AMD Corporation DAYTONA_X/DAYTONA_X, BIOS RYM0081C 07/13/2020\n Call Trace:\n  dump_stack+0xa5/0xe6\n  print_address_description.constprop.0+0x18/0x130\n  ? kvm_make_vcpus_request_mask+0x174/0x440 [kvm]\n  __kasan_report.cold+0x7f/0x114\n  ? kvm_make_vcpus_request_mask+0x174/0x440 [kvm]\n  kasan_report+0x38/0x50\n  kasan_check_range+0xf5/0x1d0\n  kvm_make_vcpus_request_mask+0x174/0x440 [kvm]\n  kvm_make_scan_ioapic_request_mask+0x84/0xc0 [kvm]\n  ? kvm_arch_exit+0x110/0x110 [kvm]\n  ? sched_clock+0x5/0x10\n  ioapic_write_indirect+0x59f/0x9e0 [kvm]\n  ? static_obj+0xc0/0xc0\n  ? __lock_acquired+0x1d2/0x8c0\n  ? kvm_ioapic_eoi_inject_work+0x120/0x120 [kvm]\n\nThe problem appears to be that 'vcpu_bitmap' is allocated as a single long\non stack and it should really be KVM_MAX_VCPUS long. We also seem to clear\nthe lower 16 bits of it with bitmap_zero() for no particular reason (my\nguess would be that 'bitmap' and 'vcpu_bitmap' variables in\nkvm_bitmap_or_dest_vcpus() caused the confusion: while the later is indeed\n16-bit long, the later should accommodate all possible vCPUs)."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"7ee30bc132c683d06a6d9e360e39e483e3990708","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bebabb76ad9acca8858e0371e102fb60d708e25b"},{"version":"7ee30bc132c683d06a6d9e360e39e483e3990708","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"99a9e9b80f19fc63be005a33d76211dd23114792"},{"version":"7ee30bc132c683d06a6d9e360e39e483e3990708","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2f9b68f57c6278c322793a06063181deded0ad69"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.5","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.5"},{"version":"5.10.71","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.14.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.14.*"},{"version":"5.15","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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