CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-19406

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2018-11-21 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-11-21
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])
4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-476

Description

kvm_pv_send_ipi in arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c in the Linux kernel through 4.19.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and BUG) via crafted system calls that reach a situation where the apic map is uninitialized.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 4.19.2)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References