Security Advisory

CVE-2017-15306

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-11-06 18:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 19:50:16
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

The kvm_vm_ioctl_check_extension function in arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.11 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via a KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION KVM_CAP_PPC_HTM ioctl call to /dev/kvm.