5.5
CVSSv3

CVE-2017-1000252

Published: 26/09/2017 Updated: 03/10/2019
CVSS v2 Base Score: 2.1 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 188
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

The KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel up to and including 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.

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Vendor Advisories

Synopsis Important: kernel-rt security, bug fix, and enhancement update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important A Common Vulnerability Sco ...
Synopsis Important: kernel security and bug fix update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 74 Extended Update SupportRed Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important A Common Vulnerabili ...
Synopsis Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important A Common Vulnerability Scoring S ...
Debian Bug report logs - #875881 linux: CVE-2017-1000251 Package: src:linux; Maintainer for src:linux is Debian Kernel Team <debian-kernel@listsdebianorg>; Reported by: Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientianet> Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 14:42:01 UTC Severity: critical Tags: confirmed, fixed-upstream, security, ...
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks CVE-2017-7518 Andy Lutomirski discovered that KVM is prone to an incorrect debug exception (#DB) error occurring while emulating a syscall instruction A process inside a guest can take advanta ...
Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel ...
Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel ...
Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel ...
A reachable assertion failure flaw was found in the Linux kernel built with KVM virtualisation(CONFIG_KVM) support with Virtual Function I/O feature (CONFIG_VFIO) enabled This failure could occur if a malicious guest device sent a virtual interrupt (guest IRQ) with a larger (>1024) index value ...