CVE-2016-8630

Publication date

2016-11-28 03:01:00

Family

redhat

State

PUBLISHED

Description

The x86_decode_insn function in arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c in the Linux kernel before 4.8.7, when KVM is enabled, allows local users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) via a certain use of a ModR/M byte in an undefined instruction.