Error Handling Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,4.9)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (23rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006455
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed28 Dec 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 28 Dec 2016

CVE-2016-9588  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-388  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 4.9 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Error Handling 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.

CVSS Base Scores

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