Security Advisory

CVE-2018-19407

5.5
MEDIUM

Vulnerability Description

The vcpu_scan_ioapic function in arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the Linux kernel through 4.19.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and BUG) via crafted system calls that reach a situation where ioapic is uninitialized.
Published Date November 21, 2018
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory