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2016-12-28
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.
| Products | Linux_kernel |
| Type | 7PK - Errors (CWE-388) |
| First patch |
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ef85b67385436ddc1998f45f1d6a210f935b3388 |
| Patches | http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ef85b67385436ddc1998f45f1d6a210f935b3388 |
| Relevant file/s | ./arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c (modified, +5, -6) |
| Links |
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3822-2/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3822-1/ • http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94933 • https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1404924 • https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1842 |
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