ELSA-2010-0898 Moderate: Oracle Linux kvm security update
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(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
11/26/2010
07/25/2018
12/20/2011
08/17/2020
Description
The KVM implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36 does not properly reload the FS and GS segment registers, which allows host OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) via a KVM_RUN ioctl call in conjunction with a modified Local Descriptor Table (LDT).
Solution(s)
- oracle-linux-upgrade-kmod-kvm
- oracle-linux-upgrade-kvm
- oracle-linux-upgrade-kvm-qemu-img
- oracle-linux-upgrade-kvm-tools
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