# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-55881"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-01-11T12:35:44.019Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:55:35.333Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:20.494Z"
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-2024-55881"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-55881.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-55881"
title: "KVM: x86: Play nice with protected guests in complete_hypercall_exit()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nKVM: x86: Play nice with protected guests in complete_hypercall_exit()\n\nUse is_64_bit_hypercall() instead of is_64_bit_mode() to detect a 64-bit\nhypercall when completing said hypercall.  For guests with protected state,\ne.g. SEV-ES and SEV-SNP, KVM must assume the hypercall was made in 64-bit\nmode as the vCPU state needed to detect 64-bit mode is unavailable.\n\nHacking the sev_smoke_test selftest to generate a KVM_HC_MAP_GPA_RANGE\nhypercall via VMGEXIT trips the WARN:\n\n  ------------[ cut here ]------------\n  WARNING: CPU: 273 PID: 326626 at arch/x86/kvm/x86.h:180 complete_hypercall_exit+0x44/0xe0 [kvm]\n  Modules linked in: kvm_amd kvm ... [last unloaded: kvm]\n  CPU: 273 UID: 0 PID: 326626 Comm: sev_smoke_test Not tainted 6.12.0-smp--392e932fa0f3-feat #470\n  Hardware name: Google Astoria/astoria, BIOS 0.20240617.0-0 06/17/2024\n  RIP: 0010:complete_hypercall_exit+0x44/0xe0 [kvm]\n  Call Trace:\n   \u003cTASK\u003e\n   kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x2400/0x2720 [kvm]\n   kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x54f/0x630 [kvm]\n   __se_sys_ioctl+0x6b/0xc0\n   do_syscall_64+0x83/0x160\n   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\n   \u003c/TASK\u003e\n  ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"5969e2435cbd7f0ce8c28d717bfc39987ee8d8f1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0840d360a8909c722fb62459f42836afe32ededb"},{"version":"b5aead0064f33ae5e693a364e3204fe1c0ac9af2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7ed4db315094963de0678a8adfd43c46471b9349"},{"version":"b5aead0064f33ae5e693a364e3204fe1c0ac9af2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3d2634ec0d1dbe8f4b511cf5261f327c6a76f4b6"},{"version":"b5aead0064f33ae5e693a364e3204fe1c0ac9af2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"22b5c2acd65dbe949032f619d4758a35a82fffc3"},{"version":"b5aead0064f33ae5e693a364e3204fe1c0ac9af2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9b42d1e8e4fe9dc631162c04caa69b0d1860b0f0"},{"version":"5.15.5","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.176"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.16"},{"version":"5.15.176","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.122","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.68","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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