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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2017-1000252): Linux kernel (GCP) vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2017-1000252): Linux kernel (GCP) vulnerabilities

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/26/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/31/2017
Modified
08/25/2021

Description

The KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 4.13.3 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (assertion failure, and hypervisor hang or crash) via an out-of bounds guest_irq value, related to arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c and virt/kvm/eventfd.c.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-10-0-1008-gcp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-10-0-1020-raspi2
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-10-0-38-generic
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-10-0-38-generic-lpae
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-10-0-38-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gcp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-hwe-16-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-lpae
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-lpae-hwe-16-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency-hwe-16-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-raspi2

References

  • USN-3405-1
  • USN-3405-2
  • USN-3414-1
  • USN-3420-1
  • USN-3420-2
  • USN-3468-1
  • USN-3468-2
  • USN-3468-3
  • USN-3469-1
  • USN-3469-2
  • USN-3470-1
  • USN-3470-2
  • DSA-3981
  • CVE-2017-1000252
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