Security Advisory

CVE-2016-9588

5.5
MEDIUM

Vulnerability 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.
Published Date December 28, 2016
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory