Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel's KVM Subsystem

CVE-2017-1000252 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 4.13.3 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (assertion failure, and hypervisor hang or crash) via an out-of bounds guest_irq value, related to arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c and virt/kvm/eventfd.c.

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