CVE-2017-12154

Description

The prepare_vmcs02 function in arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the Linux kernel through 4.13.3 does not ensure that the "CR8-load exiting" and "CR8-store exiting" L0 vmcs02 controls exist in cases where L1 omits the "use TPR shadow" vmcs12 control, which allows KVM L2 guest OS users to obtain read and write access to the hardware CR8 register.

References

https://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg155414.html

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3698-2/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3698-1/

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/51aa68e7d57e3217192d88ce90fd5b8ef29ec94f

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1491224

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1946

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1062

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0676

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100856

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3981

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=51aa68e7d57e3217192d88ce90fd5b8ef29ec94f

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3