Security Advisory

CVE-2019-3016

6.2
MEDIUM

Vulnerability Description

In a Linux KVM guest that has PV TLB enabled, a process in the guest kernel may be able to read memory locations from another process in the same guest. This problem is limit to the host running linux kernel 4.10 with a guest running linux kernel 4.16 or later. The problem mainly affects AMD processors but Intel CPUs cannot be ruled out.
Published Date January 31, 2020
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory