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CVE-2016-10150

Published: Feb 6, 2017

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

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Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the kvm_ioctl_create_device function in virt/kvm/kvm_main.c in the Linux kernel before 4.8.13 allows host OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or possibly gain privileges via crafted ioctl calls on the /dev/kvm device.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.8.13

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[oss-security] 20170118 CVE request Kernel: kvm: use-after-free issue while creating devices

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https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a0f1d21c1ccb1da66629627a74059dd7f5ac9c61

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vdb-entry

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http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a0f1d21c1ccb1da66629627a74059dd7f5ac9c61

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1414506

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