CVE-2016-3713
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Jun 27, 2016
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Mar 30, 2016
Description
The msr_mtrr_valid function in arch/x86/kvm/mtrr.c in the Linux kernel before 4.6.1 supports MSR 0x2f8, which allows guest OS users to read or write to the kvm_arch_vcpu data structure, and consequently obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service (system crash), via a crafted ioctl call.
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.6.1
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9842df62004f366b9fed2423e24df10542ee0dc5
- [oss-security] 20160516 CVE-2016-3713 Linux kernel: kvm: OOB r/w access issue with MSR 0x2F8mailing-list
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9842df62004f366b9fed2423e24df10542ee0dc5
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1332139
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