CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-1000252

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2017-09-26 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-09-26
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-20, CWE-617

Description

The KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 4.13.3 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (assertion failure, and hypervisor hang or crash) via an out-of bounds guest_irq value, related to arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c and virt/kvm/eventfd.c.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 4.13.3)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
  • CWE-617 Reachable Assertion weakness

References