Security Advisory
CVE-2016-9777
7.8
HIGH
Vulnerability Description
KVM in the Linux kernel before 4.8.12, when I/O APIC is enabled, does not properly restrict the VCPU index, which allows guest OS users to gain host OS privileges or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access and host OS crash) via a crafted interrupt request, related to arch/x86/kvm/ioapic.c and arch/x86/kvm/ioapic.h.
Published Date
December 28, 2016
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory