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veracodeVeracode Vulnerability DatabaseVERACODE:12051
HistoryJan 15, 2019 - 9:11 a.m.

Denial Of Service (DoS)

2019-01-1509:11:39
Veracode Vulnerability Database
sca.analysiscenter.veracode.com
19

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

28.1%

kernel is vulnerable to denial of service (DoS) attacks. The vulnerability exists as a race condition in arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38 allows L2 guest OS users to cause a denial of service (L1 guest OS crash) via a crafted instruction that triggers an L2 emulation failure report, a similar issue to CVE-2014-7842.

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