Security Advisory

CVE-2018-10853

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2018-09-11 14:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 07:46:47
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

A flaw was found in the way Linux kernel KVM hypervisor before 4.18 emulated instructions such as sgdt/sidt/fxsave/fxrstor. It did not check current privilege(CPL) level while emulating unprivileged instructions. An unprivileged guest user/process could use this flaw to potentially escalate privileges inside guest.