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CVE-2016-9777

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CVSS 3.1
7.8 high
EPSS
<1%p31
Published
()
Modified
Description

KVM in the Linux kernel before 4.8.12, when I/O APIC is enabled, does not properly restrict the VCPU index, which allows guest OS users to gain host OS privileges or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access and host OS crash) via a crafted interrupt request, related to arch/x86/kvm/ioapic.c and arch/x86/kvm/ioapic.h.

Vendors
linux
Products
linux kernel
Weakness
CWE-125
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (0.4%)

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