Security Advisory

CVE-2018-12904

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2018-06-27 11:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 08:45:02
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

In arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the Linux kernel before 4.17.2, when nested virtualization is used, local attackers could cause L1 KVM guests to VMEXIT, potentially allowing privilege escalations and denial of service attacks due to lack of checking of CPL.