CVE-2016-5412
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-08-06 20:00
Modified
2024-08-06 01:00
Severity ?
Summary
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S in the Linux kernel through 4.7 on PowerPC platforms, when CONFIG_KVM_BOOK3S_64_HV is enabled, allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS infinite loop) by making a H_CEDE hypercall during the existence of a suspended transaction.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=93d17397e4e2182fdaad503e2f9da46202c0f1c3
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f024ee098476a3e620232e4a78cfac505f121245
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2574.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/28/2Mailing List
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1349916Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/93d17397e4e2182fdaad503e2f9da46202c0f1c3
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f024ee098476a3e620232e4a78cfac505f121245
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