Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2017-2596

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - The nestedvmxcheckvmptr function in arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the Linux kernel through 4.9.8 improperly emulates the VMXON instruction, which allows KVM L1 guest OS...

Kernel: kvm: page reference leakage in handle_vmon

Linux kernel built with the KVM visualization support CONFIGKVM, with nested visualizationnVMX feature enablednested=1, is vulnerable to host memory leakage issue. It could occur while emulating VMXON instruction in 'handlevmon'. An L1 guest user could use this flaw to leak host memory potentiall...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-2596

The nestedvmxcheckvmptr function in arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the Linux kernel through 4.9.8 improperly emulates the VMXON instruction, which allows KVM L1 guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS memory consumption by leveraging the mishandling of page references...

CVE-2017-2596

The nestedvmxcheckvmptr function in arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the Linux kernel through 4.9.8 improperly emulates the VMXON instruction, which allows KVM L1 guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS memory consumption by leveraging the mishandling of page references...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-2596

The nestedvmxcheckvmptr function in arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the Linux kernel through 4.9.8 improperly emulates the VMXON instruction, which allows KVM L1 guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS memory consumption by leveraging the mishandling of page references...