4.7
CVSSv3

CVE-2019-3016

Published: 31/01/2020 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 1.9 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.4
CVSS v3 Base Score: 4.7 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 1
VMScore: 169
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Summary

It exists that the KVM implementation in the Linux kernel, when paravirtual TLB flushes are enabled in guests, the hypervisor in some situations could miss deferred TLB flushes or otherwise mishandle them. An attacker in a guest VM could use this to expose sensitive information (read memory from another guest VM). (CVE-2019-3016)

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Vendor Advisories

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 8Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important A Common Vulnerability Scoring S ...
Synopsis Important: kernel-rt security and bug fix update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (C ...
Synopsis Important: Container-native Virtualization security, bug fix, and enhancement update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization release 240 is now available with updates to packages and images that fix several bugs and add enhancementsRed Hat Product Securi ...
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks CVE-2019-3016 It was discovered that the KVM implementation for x86 did not always perform TLB flushes when needed, if the paravirtualised TLB flush feature was enabled This could lead to di ...
A memory leak in the adis_update_scan_mode_burst() function in drivers/iio/imu/adis_bufferc in the Linux kernel before 539 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption), aka CID-9c0530e898f3 (CVE-2019-19061) A memory leak in the ath9k_wmi_cmd() function in drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/wmic in the Linux kernel through 53 ...

Mailing Lists

<!--X-Body-Begin--> <!--X-User-Header--> oss-sec mailing list archives <!--X-User-Header-End--> <!--X-TopPNI--> By Date By Thread </form> <!--X-TopPNI-End--> <!--X-MsgBody--> <!--X-Subject-Header-Begin--> CVE-2019-3016: information leak within a KVM guest <!--X-Subject-Header-End--> <!--X-Head-of-Message--> From: John Haxby &lt ...