CVE-2018-10853 (GCVE-0-2018-10853)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-09-11 14:00
Modified
2024-08-05 07:46
Severity ?
7.0 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Summary
A flaw was found in the way Linux kernel KVM hypervisor before 4.18 emulated instructions such as sgdt/sidt/fxsave/fxrstor. It did not check current privilege(CPL) level while emulating unprivileged instructions. An unprivileged guest user/process could use this flaw to potentially escalate privileges inside guest.
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Linux kernel Version: 4.18
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