CVE-2016-9777

Published: 28/12/2016 Updated: 16/05/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.9 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.4

CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 6 | Exploitability Score: 1.1

VMScore: 615

Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

KVM in the Linux kernel prior to 4.8.12, when I/O APIC is enabled, does not properly restrict the VCPU index, which allows guest OS users to gain host OS privileges or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access and host OS crash) via a crafted interrupt request, related to arch/x86/kvm/ioapic.c and arch/x86/kvm/ioapic.h.

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Several security issues were fixed in the kernel ...

KVM in the Linux kernel before 4812, when I/O APIC is enabled, does not properly restrict the VCPU index, which allows guest OS users to gain host OS privileges or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access and host OS crash) via a crafted interrupt request, related to arch/x86/kvm/ioapicc and arch/x86/kvm/ioapich ...

CWE-125 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/81cdb259fb6d8c1c4ecfeea389ff5a73c07f5755 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1400804 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/02/2 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.8.12 http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=81cdb259fb6d8c1c4ecfeea389ff5a73c07f5755 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94640 https://nvd.nist.gov https://usn.ubuntu.com/3190-2/

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