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  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: nVMX: Always make an attempt to     map eVMCS after migration When enlightened VMCS is in use and nested state is migrated with     vmx_get_nested_state()/vmx_set_nested_state() KVM can't map evmcs page right away: evmcs gpa is not     'struct kvm_vmx_nested_state_hdr' and we can't read it from VP assist page because userspace may decide to     restore HV_X64_MSR_VP_ASSIST_PAGE after restoring nested state (and QEMU, for example, does exactly that).
    To make sure eVMCS is mapped /vmx_set_nested_state() raises KVM_REQ_GET_NESTED_STATE_PAGES request. Commit     f2c7ef3ba955 (KVM: nSVM: cancel KVM_REQ_GET_NESTED_STATE_PAGES on nested vmexit) added     KVM_REQ_GET_NESTED_STATE_PAGES clearing to nested_vmx_vmexit() to make sure MSR permission bitmap is not     switched when an immediate exit from L2 to L1 happens right after migration (caused by a pending event,     for example). Unfortunately, in the exact same situation we still need to have eVMCS mapped so     nested_sync_vmcs12_to_shadow() reflects changes in VMCS12 to eVMCS. As a band-aid, restore     nested_get_evmcs_page() when clearing KVM_REQ_GET_NESTED_STATE_PAGES in nested_vmx_vmexit(). The 'fix' is     far from being ideal as we can't easily propagate possible failures and even if we could, this is most     likely already too late to do so. The whole 'KVM_REQ_GET_NESTED_STATE_PAGES' idea for mapping eVMCS after     migration seems to be fragile as we diverge too much from the 'native' path when vmptr loading happens on     vmx_set_nested_state(). (CVE-2021-46978)

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ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
229765	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2021-46978	Nessus	Misc.	3/5/2025	9/4/2025	high
160459	Amazon Linux 2 : kernel (ALASKERNEL-5.10-2022-002)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	5/2/2022	9/25/2025	high

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