CVE-2015-4692 (GCVE-0-2015-4692)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-07-27 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 06:18
VLAI?
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.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/21/1 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2680-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2682-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1230770 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ce40cd3f… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3329 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2684-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2681-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2683-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75142 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torva… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032798 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
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