CVE-2015-7513
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Feb 8, 2016
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Sep 29, 2015
Description
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4 does not reset the PIT counter values during state restoration, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and host OS crash) via a zero value, related to the kvm_vm_ioctl_set_pit and kvm_vm_ioctl_set_pit2 functions.
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
- [oss-security] 20160107 CVE-2015-7513 Kernel: kvm: divide by zero issue leads to DoSmailing-list
- FEDORA-2016-26e19f042avendor-advisory
- USN-2887-2vendor-advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0185604c2d82c560dab2f2933a18f797e74ab5a8
- USN-2886-1vendor-advisory
- USN-2887-1vendor-advisory
- USN-2890-3vendor-advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0185604c2d82c560dab2f2933a18f797e74ab5a8
- USN-2889-1vendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2016-b59fd603bevendor-advisory
- USN-2889-2vendor-advisory
- 79901vdb-entry
- FEDORA-2016-5d43766e33vendor-advisory
- USN-2890-2vendor-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1284847
- USN-2890-1vendor-advisory
- DSA-3434vendor-advisory
- 1034602vdb-entry
- USN-2888-1vendor-advisory
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