Denial of Service Vulnerability in PowerPC KVM Hypervisor

CVE-2016-5412 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S in the Linux kernel through 4.7 on PowerPC platforms, when CONFIG_KVM_BOOK3S_64_HV is enabled, allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS infinite loop) by making a H_CEDE hypercall during the existence of a suspended transaction.

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