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CVE-2016-9777 PUBLISHED

KVM in the Linux kernel before 4.8.12, when I/O APIC is enabled, does not properly restrict the VCPU index, which allows guest OS users to gain host OS privileges or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access and host OS crash) via a crafted interrupt request, related to arch/x86/kvm/ioapic.c and arch/x86/kvm/ioapic.h.

EPSS 0.07% · 20.6th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score
0.07%
20.6th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Ubuntu:16.04:LTSlinux-hwe0, 4.8.0-36.36~16.04.1

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