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GHSA-p75g-c3g7-8x4x
GHSA-p75g-c3g7-8x4x
PUBLISHED
CVSS 5.5 MEDIUM
Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 14, 2022
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.
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 14, 2022 CVE Published
- Apr 9, 2026 Distribution Patch (3 in total, the first dated here)
- Apr 30, 2026 Security Advisory
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References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9588 advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ef85b67385436ddc1998f45f1d6a210f935b3388 url
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2077 url
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/15/3 url
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3822-1 url
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3822-2 url
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3804 url
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1842 url
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9588 url
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1404924 url
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ef85b67385436ddc1998f45f1d6a210f935b3388 url
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94933 url