Security Advisory
CVE-2017-7518
5.5
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Description
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel before version 4.12 in the way the KVM module processed the trap flag(TF) bit in EFLAGS during emulation of the syscall instruction, which leads to a debug exception(#DB) being raised in the guest stack. A user/process inside a guest could use this flaw to potentially escalate their privileges inside the guest. Linux guests are not affected by this.
Published Date
July 30, 2018
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory