CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-5412
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-08-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S in the Linux kernel through 4.7 on PowerPC platforms, when CONFIG_KVM_BOOK3S_64_HV is enabled, allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS infinite loop) by making a H_CEDE hypercall during the existence of a suspended transaction.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 4.7)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=93d17397e4e2182fdaad503e2f9da46202c0f1c3 git.kernel.org
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f024ee098476a3e620232e4a78cfac505f121245 git.kernel.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2574.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/28/2 Mailing List
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1349916 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/93d17397e4e2182fdaad503e2f9da46202c0f1c3 github.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f024ee098476a3e620232e4a78cfac505f121245 github.com
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=93d17397e4e2182fdaad503e2f9da46202c0f1c3 git.kernel.org
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f024ee098476a3e620232e4a78cfac505f121245 git.kernel.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2574.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/28/2 Mailing List
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1349916 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/93d17397e4e2182fdaad503e2f9da46202c0f1c3 github.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f024ee098476a3e620232e4a78cfac505f121245 github.com