The vulnerability of the Linux operating system, which allows a hacker to trigger a service failure

The vulnerability of the handleinvept function in the arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c file of the Linux operating system is related to pointer swapping errors. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker, acting locally, to trigger a service failure pointer swapping using just one INVEPT instruction...

CVE-2017-8106

The handleinvept function in arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the Linux kernel 3.12 through 3.15 allows privileged KVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash via a single-context INVEPT instruction with a NULL EPT pointer...

CVE-2017-8106

The CVE-2017-8106 issue affects the Linux kernel (arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c) in versions 3.12–3.15. The vulnerability arises from the handle_invept path, enabling privileged KVM guest OS users to trigger a NULL pointer dereference via a single-context INVEPT with a NULL EPT pointer, causing a denial of ...