Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel through 4.9

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel through 4.9

CVE-2016-9588 · LOW Severity

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

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.

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