CVE-2016-9588

Publication date

2016-12-28 07:42:00

Family

redhat

State

PUBLISHED

Description

arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the Linux kernel through 4.9 mismanages the #BP and #OF exceptions, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) by declining to handle an exception thrown by an L2 guest.