FKIE_CVE-2015-4692
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2015-07-27 10:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:27
Severity
Summary
The kvm_apic_has_events function in arch/x86/kvm/lapic.h in the Linux kernel through 4.1.3 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging /dev/kvm access for an ioctl call.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | * |
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