vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2016-10150: linux -- security update

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Feb 6, 2017
Added
Mar 27, 2019
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the kvm_ioctl_create_device function in virt/kvm/kvm_main.c in the Linux kernel before 4.8.13 allows host OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or possibly gain privileges via crafted ioctl calls on the /dev/kvm device.

Solution

debian-upgrade-linux
Title
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