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CVE-2016-9588

CVSS v3.0 5.5 (Medium)
55% Progress
CVSS v2.0 2.1 (Low)
21% Progress
EPSS 0.06 % (28th)
0.06% Progress
Affected Products 1
Advisories 17
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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.

Weaknesses
CWE-388
7PK - Errors
CVE Status
PUBLISHED
CNA
Red Hat, Inc.
Published Date
2016-12-28 07:59:00
(7 years ago)
Updated Date
2023-02-12 23:27:20
(19 months ago)

Affected Products

Linux

Configuration #1

    CPE23 From Up To
  Linux Kernel 4.9 and prior versions cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel <= 4.9