CVE-2015-0239
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Mar 2, 2015
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Nov 18, 2014
Description
The em_sysenter function in arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c in the Linux kernel before 3.18.5, when the guest OS lacks SYSENTER MSR initialization, allows guest OS users to gain guest OS privileges or cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) by triggering use of a 16-bit code segment for emulation of a SYSENTER instruction.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- USN-2515-1vendor-advisory
- DSA-3170vendor-advisory
- 72842vdb-entry
- [oss-security] 20150127 KVM SYSENTER emulation vulnerability - CVE-2015-0239mailing-list
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1186448
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f3747379accba8e95d70cec0eae0582c8c182050
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f3747379accba8e95d70cec0eae0582c8c182050
- USN-2514-1vendor-advisory
- USN-2518-1vendor-advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.18.5
- MDVSA-2015:058vendor-advisory
- [bk-commits-head] 20150123 KVM: x86: SYSENTER emulation is brokenmailing-list
- USN-2517-1vendor-advisory
- USN-2516-1vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2015:1272vendor-advisory
- USN-2513-1vendor-advisory
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