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GHSA-fr9c-f69x-fpvf
GHSA-fr9c-f69x-fpvf
PUBLISHED
CVSS 5.5 MEDIUM
Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 13, 2022
The 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 scores
CVSS 3.0
5.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Timeline
- May 13, 2022 CVE Published
- Apr 9, 2026 Distribution Patch (4 in total, the first dated here)
- Apr 29, 2026 Security Advisory
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References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1062 url
- https://marc.info/?l=kvm&m=150549146311117&w=2 url
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=36ae3c0a36b7456432fedce38ae2f7bd3e01a563 url
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3a8b0677fc6180a467e26cc32ce6b0c09a32f9bb url
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/09/15/4 url
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1130 url
- https://marc.info/?l=kvm&m=150549145711115&w=2 url
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101022 url
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-1000252 advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/36ae3c0a36b7456432fedce38ae2f7bd3e01a563 url
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3a8b0677fc6180a467e26cc32ce6b0c09a32f9bb url
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0676 url
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1490781 url
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3981 url