CVE-2015-4692

EPSS 0.5%

The kvm_apic_has_events function in arch/x86/kvm/lapic.h in the Linux kernel through 4.1.3 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging /dev/kvm access for an ioctl call.

Affected products

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References

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ce40cd3fc7fa40a6119e5fe6c0f2bc0eb4541009 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-June/160829.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-June/161144.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00049.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00011.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1230770 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ce40cd3fc7fa40a6119e5fe6c0f2bc0eb4541009 http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3329 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/21/1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75142 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032798 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2680-1