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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-47717" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-10-21T11:53:48.181Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:39:25.565Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:16.009Z" 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-2024-47717" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-47717.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-47717" title: "RISC-V: KVM: Don't zero-out PMU snapshot area before freeing data" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nRISC-V: KVM: Don't zero-out PMU snapshot area before freeing data\n\nWith the latest Linux-6.11-rc3, the below NULL pointer crash is observed\nwhen SBI PMU snapshot is enabled for the guest and the guest is forcefully\npowered-off.\n\n Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000508\n Oops [#1]\n Modules linked in: kvm\n CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 61 Comm: term-poll Not tainted 6.11.0-rc3-00018-g44d7178dd77a #3\n Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)\n epc : __kvm_write_guest_page+0x94/0xa6 [kvm]\n ra : __kvm_write_guest_page+0x54/0xa6 [kvm]\n epc : ffffffff01590e98 ra : ffffffff01590e58 sp : ffff8f80001f39b0\n gp : ffffffff81512a60 tp : ffffaf80024872c0 t0 : ffffaf800247e000\n t1 : 00000000000007e0 t2 : 0000000000000000 s0 : ffff8f80001f39f0\n s1 : 00007fff89ac4000 a0 : ffffffff015dd7e8 a1 : 0000000000000086\n a2 : 0000000000000000 a3 : ffffaf8000000000 a4 : ffffaf80024882c0\n a5 : 0000000000000000 a6 : ffffaf800328d780 a7 : 00000000000001cc\n s2 : ffffaf800197bd00 s3 : 00000000000828c4 s4 : ffffaf800248c000\n s5 : ffffaf800247d000 s6 : 0000000000001000 s7 : 0000000000001000\n s8 : 0000000000000000 s9 : 00007fff861fd500 s10: 0000000000000001\n s11: 0000000000800000 t3 : 00000000000004d3 t4 : 00000000000004d3\n t5 : ffffffff814126e0 t6 : ffffffff81412700\n status: 0000000200000120 badaddr: 0000000000000508 cause: 000000000000000d\n [\u003cffffffff01590e98\u003e] __kvm_write_guest_page+0x94/0xa6 [kvm]\n [\u003cffffffff015943a6\u003e] kvm_vcpu_write_guest+0x56/0x90 [kvm]\n [\u003cffffffff015a175c\u003e] kvm_pmu_clear_snapshot_area+0x42/0x7e [kvm]\n [\u003cffffffff015a1972\u003e] kvm_riscv_vcpu_pmu_deinit.part.0+0xe0/0x14e [kvm]\n [\u003cffffffff015a2ad0\u003e] kvm_riscv_vcpu_pmu_deinit+0x1a/0x24 [kvm]\n [\u003cffffffff0159b344\u003e] kvm_arch_vcpu_destroy+0x28/0x4c [kvm]\n [\u003cffffffff0158e420\u003e] kvm_destroy_vcpus+0x5a/0xda [kvm]\n [\u003cffffffff0159930c\u003e] kvm_arch_destroy_vm+0x14/0x28 [kvm]\n [\u003cffffffff01593260\u003e] kvm_destroy_vm+0x168/0x2a0 [kvm]\n [\u003cffffffff015933d4\u003e] kvm_put_kvm+0x3c/0x58 [kvm]\n [\u003cffffffff01593412\u003e] kvm_vm_release+0x22/0x2e [kvm]\n\nClearly, the kvm_vcpu_write_guest() function is crashing because it is\nbeing called from kvm_pmu_clear_snapshot_area() upon guest tear down.\n\nTo address the above issue, simplify the kvm_pmu_clear_snapshot_area() to\nnot zero-out PMU snapshot area from kvm_pmu_clear_snapshot_area() because\nthe guest is anyway being tore down.\n\nThe kvm_pmu_clear_snapshot_area() is also called when guest changes\nPMU snapshot area of a VCPU but even in this case the previous PMU\nsnaphsot area must not be zeroed-out because the guest might have\nreclaimed the pervious PMU snapshot area for some other purpose." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"c2f41ddbcdd75689d9f512638a40263e3127be93","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"81aa95fd5bd14ff49617f07fa79a8d1f1cf2ce9a"},{"version":"c2f41ddbcdd75689d9f512638a40263e3127be93","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6d0a5dcfc78bd18f2abb9641f83380135494559b"},{"version":"c2f41ddbcdd75689d9f512638a40263e3127be93","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"47d40d93292d9cff8dabb735bed83d930fa03950"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.10"},{"version":"6.10.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.10.*"},{"version":"6.11.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.11.*"},{"version":"6.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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