CVE-2017-1000252

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Summary

CVECVE-2017-1000252
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-09-26 05:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-03 00:03:00 UTC
DescriptionThe KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 4.13.3 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (assertion failure, and hypervisor hang or crash) via an out-of bounds guest_irq value, related to arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c and virt/kvm/eventfd.c.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20 | CWE-617

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree CONFIRM git.kernel.org Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
'[PATCH 2/2] KVM: Don't accept obviously wrong gsi values via KVM_IRQFD' - MARC CONFIRM marc.info Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Linux Kernel CVE-2017-1000252 Multiple Local Denial of Service Vulnerabilities BID www.securityfocus.com
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
1490781 – (CVE-2017-1000252) CVE-2017-1000252 kernel: kvm: Reachable BUG() on out-of-bounds guest IRQ CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree CONFIRM git.kernel.org Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-3981-1 linux DEBIAN www.debian.org
KVM: Don't accept obviously wrong gsi values via KVM_IRQFD · torvalds/linux@36ae3c0 · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
oss-security - CVE-2017-1000252: KVM denial of service with posted interrupts on Intel systems (since Linux 4.4) CONFIRM www.openwall.com Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
'[PATCH 1/2] KVM: VMX: Do not BUG() on out-of-bounds guest IRQ' - MARC CONFIRM marc.info Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
KVM: VMX: Do not BUG() on out-of-bounds guest IRQ · torvalds/linux@3a8b067 · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
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