Security Advisory

CVE-2016-9588

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-12-28 07:42:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 02:59:02
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.