CVE-2019-3887

Summary

A flaw was found in the way KVM hypervisor handled x2APIC Machine Specific Rregister (MSR) access with nested(=1) virtualization enabled. In that, L1 guest could access L0's APIC register values via L2 guest, when 'virtualize x2APIC mode' is enabled. A guest could use this flaw to potentially crash the host kernel resulting in DoS issue. Kernel versions from 4.16 and newer are vulnerable to this issue.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
The Linux FoundationKernelfrom 4.16affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-863: CWE-863

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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