CVE-2016-9588 (GCVE-0-2016-9588)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-12-28 07:42 – Updated: 2024-08-06 02:59
VLAI
Summary
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the Linux kernel through 4.9 mismanages the #BP and #OF exceptions, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) by declining to handle an exception thrown by an L2 guest.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/15/3 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2077 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1842 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3822-2/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3804 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94933 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1404924 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3822-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torva… x_refsource_CONFIRM
Date Public
2016-12-15 00:00
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