Design/Logic Flaw

The accesspmuevcntr function in arch/arm64/kvm/sysregs.c in the Linux kernel before 4.8.11 allows privileged KVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service assertion failure and host OS crash by accessing the Performance Monitors Cycle Count Register PMCCNTR...

CVE-2017-12168

The accesspmuevcntr function in arch/arm64/kvm/sysregs.c in the Linux kernel before 4.8.11 allows privileged KVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service assertion failure and host OS crash by accessing the Performance Monitors Cycle Count Register PMCCNTR...

CVE-2017-12168

An assertion failure issue was found in the Linux kernel's KVM hypervisor module built to support visualization on ARM64 architecture platforms. The failure could occur while accessing Performance Monitors Cycle Count Register PMCCNTR from a guest. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to...