imPC@ndo IT

Tracker / CVE-2018-12904

CVE-2018-12904

Medium 4.9

In arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the Linux kernel before 4.17.2, when nested virtualization is used, local attackers could cause L1 KVM guests to VMEXIT, potentially allowing privilege escalations and denial of service attacks due to lack of checking of CPL.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
linux linux_kernel · … → 4.17.2

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

References