CVE-2019-3887

Kernel: KVM: nVMX: guest accesses L0 MSR causes potential DoS

Published Apr 9, 2019 CVSS 3.1 · 5.6 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
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.

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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2019-13497 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3979-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3980-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3980-2 Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities
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