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CVE-2016-9777

Description

KVM in the Linux kernel before 4.8.12, when I/O APIC is enabled, does not properly restrict the VCPU index, which allows guest OS users to gain host OS privileges or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access and host OS crash) via a crafted interrupt request, related to arch/x86/kvm/ioapic.c and arch/x86/kvm/ioapic.h. #### Notes Author| Note ---|--- [jdstrand](<https://launchpad.net/~jdstrand>) | android kernels (flo, goldfish, grouper, maguro, mako and manta) are not supported on the Ubuntu Touch 14.10 and earlier preview kernels linux-lts-saucy no longer receives official support linux-lts-quantal no longer receives official support


Affected Package


OS OS Version Package Name Package Version
ubuntu 16.10 linux 4.8.0-37.39
ubuntu upstream linux 4.9~rc7
ubuntu upstream linux-armadaxp 4.9~rc7
ubuntu upstream linux-aws 4.9~rc7
ubuntu upstream linux-flo 4.9~rc7
ubuntu upstream linux-gke 4.9~rc7
ubuntu upstream linux-goldfish 4.9~rc7
ubuntu upstream linux-grouper 4.9~rc7
ubuntu 16.04 linux-hwe 4.8.0-39.42~16.04.1
ubuntu upstream linux-hwe 4.9~rc7
ubuntu 16.04 linux-hwe-edge 4.8.0-39.42~16.04.1
ubuntu upstream linux-hwe-edge 4.9~rc7
ubuntu upstream linux-linaro-omap 4.9~rc7
ubuntu upstream linux-linaro-shared 4.9~rc7
ubuntu upstream linux-linaro-vexpress 4.9~rc7
ubuntu upstream linux-lts-quantal 4.9~rc7
ubuntu upstream linux-lts-raring 4.9~rc7
ubuntu upstream linux-lts-saucy 4.9~rc7
ubuntu upstream linux-lts-trusty 4.9~rc7
ubuntu upstream linux-lts-utopic 4.9~rc7
ubuntu upstream linux-lts-vivid 4.9~rc7
ubuntu upstream linux-lts-wily 4.9~rc7
ubuntu upstream linux-lts-xenial 4.9~rc7
ubuntu upstream linux-maguro 4.9~rc7
ubuntu upstream linux-mako 4.9~rc7
ubuntu upstream linux-manta 4.9~rc7
ubuntu upstream linux-qcm-msm 4.9~rc7
ubuntu 16.10 linux-raspi2 4.8.0-1024.27
ubuntu upstream linux-raspi2 4.9~rc7
ubuntu upstream linux-snapdragon 4.9~rc7
ubuntu upstream linux-ti-omap4 4.9~rc7

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