CVE-2017-8106

Publication date

2017-04-24 23:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

The handle_invept function in arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the Linux kernel 3.12 through 3.15 allows privileged KVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash) via a single-context INVEPT instruction with a NULL EPT pointer.