Tracker / CVE-2015-0239
CVE-2015-0239
Medium 4.4
The em_sysenter function in arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c in the Linux kernel before 3.18.5, when the guest OS lacks SYSENTER MSR initialization, allows guest OS users to gain guest OS privileges or cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) by triggering use of a 16-bit code segment for emulation of a SYSENTER instruction.
Affected products and versions
| canonical | ubuntu_linux |
|---|---|
| debian | debian_linux |
| linux | linux_kernel · … → 3.18.5 |
| oracle | linux |
| redhat | enterprise_linux_desktop |
| redhat | enterprise_linux_server |
| redhat | enterprise_linux_workstation |
Analysis
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