cve-2017-12168
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-09-20 08:00
Modified
2024-08-05 18:28
Severity ?
Summary
The access_pmu_evcntr function in arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c in the Linux kernel before 4.8.11 allows privileged KVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and host OS crash) by accessing the Performance Monitors Cycle Count Register (PMCCNTR).
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9e3f7a29694049edd728e2400ab57ad7553e5aa9Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.8.11Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1492984Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9e3f7a29694049edd728e2400ab57ad7553e5aa9Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9e3f7a29694049edd728e2400ab57ad7553e5aa9Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.8.11Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1492984Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9e3f7a29694049edd728e2400ab57ad7553e5aa9Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
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