CVE-2017-15306

Published November 6th, 2017

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CVSS v3

N/A

CVSS v2

4.9

MEDIUM

Affected

PROJECT

Description

The kvm_vm_ioctl_check_extension function in arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.11 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via a KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION KVM_CAP_PPC_HTM ioctl call to /dev/kvm.

torvalds/linux

Linux kernel source tree

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