CVE-2017-1000252

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CVSS 3.0

5.5 medium

EPSS

<1%p38

Published

Sep 26, 2017 (Sep 26, 2017)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

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.

Vendors: linux
Products: linux kernel
Weakness: CWE-20, CWE-617
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (0.5%)

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