CVE-2015-0239

Published March 2nd, 2015

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CVSS v3

N/A

CVSS v2

4.4

MEDIUM

Affected

PROJECT

Description

The em_sysenter function in arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c in the Linux kernel before 3.18.5, when the guest OS lacks SYSENTER MSR initialization, allows guest OS users to gain guest OS privileges or cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) by triggering use of a 16-bit code segment for emulation of a SYSENTER instruction.

torvalds/linux

Linux kernel source tree

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