CVEvulnerability

CVE-2015-4692

4.9 MEDIUM Published 2015-07-27 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2015-07-27
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Description

The kvm_apic_has_events function in arch/x86/kvm/lapic.h in the Linux kernel through 4.1.3 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging /dev/kvm access for an ioctl call.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 4.1.3)

References