CVE-2017-12188 (GCVE-0-2017-12188)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-10-11 15:00
Modified
2024-08-05 18:28
Severity ?
CWE
Summary
arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c in the Linux kernel through 4.13.5, when nested virtualisation is used, does not properly traverse guest pagetable entries to resolve a guest virtual address, which allows L1 guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS or cause a denial of service (incorrect index during page walking, and host OS crash), aka an "MMU potential stack buffer overrun."
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a Linux kernel Version: Linux kernel
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