CVE - CVE-2016-9588

CVE-ID
CVE-2016-9588	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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.
References
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MISC:94933 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94933 MISC:DSA-3804 URL:http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3804 MISC:RHSA-2017:1842 URL:https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1842 MISC:RHSA-2017:2077 URL:https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2077 MISC:USN-3822-1 URL:https://usn.ubuntu.com/3822-1/ MISC:USN-3822-2 URL:https://usn.ubuntu.com/3822-2/ MISC:[oss-security] 20161215 CVE-2016-9588 Kernel: kvm: nVMX: uncaught software exceptions in L1 guest lead to DoS URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/15/3 MISC:http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ef85b67385436ddc1998f45f1d6a210f935b3388 URL:http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ef85b67385436ddc1998f45f1d6a210f935b3388 MISC:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1404924 URL:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1404924 MISC:https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ef85b67385436ddc1998f45f1d6a210f935b3388 URL:https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ef85b67385436ddc1998f45f1d6a210f935b3388
Assigning CNA
Red Hat, Inc.
Date Record Created
20161123	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20161123)
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Proposed (Legacy)
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