Security Advisory

CVE-2016-9777

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-12-28 07:42:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 02:59:03

Assigner redhat

State PUBLISHED

Description

KVM in the Linux kernel before 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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