CVE-2018-12904

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-12904
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-06-27 11:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-03 00:03:00 UTC
DescriptionIn arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the Linux kernel before 4.17.2, when nested virtualization is used, local attackers could cause L1 KVM guests to VMEXIT, potentially allowing privilege escalations and denial of service attacks due to lack of checking of CPL.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
USN-3752-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree MISC git.kernel.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
USN-3752-2: Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
KVM (Nested Virtualization) - L1 Guest Privilege Escalation - Linux dos Exploit EXPLOIT-DB www.exploit-db.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
kvm: nVMX: Enforce cpl=0 for VMX instructions · torvalds/linux@727ba74 · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.17.2 MISC cdn.kernel.org Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
1589 - project-zero - Project Zero - Monorail MISC bugs.chromium.org Exploit, Third Party Advisory
USN-3752-3: Linux kernel (Azure, GCP, OEM) vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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