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Bug 1414735 (CVE-2017-2583)
Summary: | CVE-2017-2583 Kernel: Kvm: vmx/svm potential privilege escalation inside guest | ||
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Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Prasad Pandit <ppandit> |
Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | unspecified | CC: | aquini, arm-mgr, bhu, dhoward, fhrbata, gansalmon, iboverma, ichavero, itamar, jforbes, jkacur, joelsmith, jonathan, jross, jwboyer, kernel-maint, kernel-mgr, labbott, lgoncalv, madhu.chinakonda, matt, mchehab, mcressma, nmurray, pholasek, plougher, rt-maint, rvrbovsk, slong, williams |
Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value | |
Doc Text: |
Linux kernel built with the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (CONFIG_KVM) support was vulnerable to an incorrect segment selector(SS) value error. The error could occur while loading values into the SS register in long mode. A user or process inside a guest could use this flaw to crash the guest, resulting in DoS or potentially escalate their privileges inside the guest.
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Story Points: | --- |
Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
Last Closed: | 2019-06-08 03:05:45 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Bug Depends On: | 1414736, 1414742, 1414743, 1414744, 1414745 | ||
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Description
Prasad Pandit
2017-01-19 10:51:11 UTC
Acknowledgments: Name: Xiaohan Zhang (Huawei Inc.) Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1414736] Statement: This issue does not affect the versions of the kernel package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2. This issue affects the versions of the Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Future kernel updates for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 may address this issue. This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2017:1615 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1615 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2017:1616 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1616 |