CVE-2016-9588

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

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.

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.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 5.5. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 8 years ago

2016-12-28 07:59:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-11-28 11:29:00

Affected Software

Linux Kernel

References

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ef85b67385436ddc1998f45f1d6a210f935b3388

Patch, Vendor Advisory

DSA-3804

[oss-security] 20161215 CVE-2016-9588 Kernel: kvm: nVMX: uncaught software exceptions in L1 guest lead to DoS

Mailing List, Patch

94933

RHSA-2017:1842

RHSA-2017:2077

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1404924

Issue Tracking

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ef85b67385436ddc1998f45f1d6a210f935b3388

Patch, Vendor Advisory

USN-3822-1

USN-3822-2

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