CVE-2016-9588
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Dec 28, 2016
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Nov 23, 2016
Description
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.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ef85b67385436ddc1998f45f1d6a210f935b3388
- [oss-security] 20161215 CVE-2016-9588 Kernel: kvm: nVMX: uncaught software exceptions in L1 guest lead to DoSmailing-list
- RHSA-2017:2077vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2017:1842vendor-advisory
- USN-3822-2vendor-advisory
- DSA-3804vendor-advisory
- 94933vdb-entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1404924
- USN-3822-1vendor-advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ef85b67385436ddc1998f45f1d6a210f935b3388
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