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CVE-2016-9588

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Date: December 28, 2016

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

5.5

Related Resources (15)

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9588

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-9588

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9588

Url: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ef85b67385436ddc1998f45f1d6a210f935b3388

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9588

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94933

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1404924

Url: https://usn.ubuntu.com/3822-2/

Url: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2077

Url: https://usn.ubuntu.com/3822-1/

Url: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1842

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/15/3

Url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ef85b67385436ddc1998f45f1d6a210f935b3388

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3804

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2016-9588

Severity Score

5.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Error Handling

CWE-388

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.5
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	LOW
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	2.1
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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