CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-9588

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2016-12-28 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-12-28
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-388

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.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 4.9)

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References