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| author | Ben Hutchings <benh@debian.org> | 2017-03-08 14:56:53 +0000 |
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| committer | Ben Hutchings <benh@debian.org> | 2017-03-08 14:56:53 +0000 |
| commit | b01ca5a4080a821aab4a9a0f53f9f2d054374287 (patch) | |
| tree | 171a160bff27a0e67469823c31c96a0139d61acd /dsa-texts/3.16.39-1+deb8u2 | |
| parent | 042f4bc2f12c14a0fe0ac6aa934db55be4086385 (diff) | |
Clarify that CVE-2016-9588 only applies to nested VMX
git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/kernel-sec@5058 e094ebfe-e918-0410-adfb-c712417f3574
Diffstat (limited to 'dsa-texts/3.16.39-1+deb8u2')
| -rw-r--r-- | dsa-texts/3.16.39-1+deb8u2 | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/dsa-texts/3.16.39-1+deb8u2 b/dsa-texts/3.16.39-1+deb8u2 index 7a5ab99a..825b23ee 100644 --- a/dsa-texts/3.16.39-1+deb8u2 +++ b/dsa-texts/3.16.39-1+deb8u2 @@ -9,10 +9,11 @@ impacts. CVE-2016-9588 - Jim Mattson discovered that the KVM implementation does not properly - handle #BP and #OF exceptions. A local attacker in a guest virtual - machine can take advantage of this flaw to cause a denial of service - (guest OS crash). + Jim Mattson discovered that the KVM implementation for Intel x86 + processors does not properly handle #BP and #OF exceptions in an + L2 (nested) virtual machine. A local attacker in an L2 guest VM + can take advantage of this flaw to cause a denial of service for + the L1 guest VM. CVE-2017-2636 |