CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-0239
4.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-03-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.4 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-269
Description
The em_sysenter function in arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c in the Linux kernel before 3.18.5, when the guest OS lacks SYSENTER MSR initialization, allows guest OS users to gain guest OS privileges or cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) by triggering use of a 16-bit code segment for emulation of a SYSENTER instruction.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 3.18.5)
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.10
• debian debian linux 7.0
• debian debian linux 8.0
• oracle linux 5
• oracle linux 7
• redhat enterprise linux desktop 6.0
• redhat enterprise linux server 6.0
• redhat enterprise linux workstation 6.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f3747379accba8e95d70cec0eae0582c8c182050 git.kernel.org
- http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.commits.head/502245 Broken Link
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1272.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3170 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.18.5 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:058 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/27/6 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72842 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2513-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2514-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2515-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2516-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2517-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2518-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1186448 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f3747379accba8e95d70cec0eae0582c8c182050 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f3747379accba8e95d70cec0eae0582c8c182050 git.kernel.org
- http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.commits.head/502245 Broken Link
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1272.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3170 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.18.5 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:058 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/27/6 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72842 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2513-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2514-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2515-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2516-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2517-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2518-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1186448 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f3747379accba8e95d70cec0eae0582c8c182050 Patch, Third Party Advisory