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Oracle Linux: CVE-2016-9588: ELSA-2017-3533: Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update (IMPORTANT) (Multiple Advisories)

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Oracle Linux: CVE-2016-9588: ELSA-2017-3533: Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update (IMPORTANT) (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/14/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/04/2017
Modified
07/22/2024

Description

arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the Linux kernel through 4.9 mismanages the #BP and #OF exceptions, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) by declining to handle an exception thrown by an L2 guest. Linux kernel built with the KVM visualization support (CONFIG_KVM), with nested visualization(nVMX) feature enabled(nested=1), is vulnerable to an uncaught exception issue. It could occur if an L2 guest was to throw an exception which is not handled by an L1 guest.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel

References

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