CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-10150

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2017-02-06 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2017-02-06
Last modified: 2026-06-17
Assigner: [email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected]): 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected]): 10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses: CWE-264, CWE-416

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the kvm_ioctl_create_device function in virt/kvm/kvm_main.c in the Linux kernel before 4.8.13 allows host OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or possibly gain privileges via crafted ioctl calls on the /dev/kvm device.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 4.8.0 < 4.8.13)

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

CWE-264

Weakness · CWE (1)

CWE-416 Use After Free weakness

References

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a0f1d21c1ccb1da66629627a74059dd7f5ac9c61 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.8.13 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/18/10 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95672 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1414506 Issue Tracking, Patch
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a0f1d21c1ccb1da66629627a74059dd7f5ac9c61 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a0f1d21c1ccb1da66629627a74059dd7f5ac9c61 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.8.13 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/18/10 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95672 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1414506 Issue Tracking, Patch
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a0f1d21c1ccb1da66629627a74059dd7f5ac9c61 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory