{"cve":"CVE-2021-4032","nvd":{"published":"2022-01-21T19:15:09.827","modified":"2026-06-17T04:18:55.510","status":"Modified","description":"A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's KVM subsystem in arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c kvm_free_lapic when a failure allocation was detected. In this flaw the KVM subsystem may crash the kernel due to mishandling of memory errors that happens during VCPU construction, which allows an attacker with special user privilege to cause a denial of service. This flaw affects kernel versions prior to 5.15 rc7.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","score":4.4},"cwes":["CWE-459"],"references":["https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2027403","https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f7d8a19f9a056a05c5c509fa65af472a322abfee","https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/9/8/587","https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2027403","https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f7d8a19f9a056a05c5c509fa65af472a322abfee"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T21:27:20.926095847+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2021-4032","score":0.00393,"percentile":0.33446,"date":"2026-11-01"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}