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CVE-2015-4692 (GCVE-0-2015-4692)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-07-27 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 06:18
VLAI
Summary
The kvm_apic_has_events function in arch/x86/kvm/lapic.h in the Linux kernel through 4.1.3 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging /dev/kvm access for an ioctl call.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3329 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75142 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torva… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032798 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
Date Public
2015-06-20 00:00
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