A flaw was found in the way KVM hypervisor handled x2APIC Machine Specific Rregister (MSR) access with nested(=1) virtualization enabled. In that, L1 guest could access L0's APIC register values via L2 guest, when 'virtualize x2APIC mode' is enabled. A guest could use this flaw to potentially crash the host kernel resulting in DoS issue. Kernel versions from 4.16 and newer are vulnerable to this issue.

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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2019-13497 A flaw was found in the way KVM hypervisor handled x2APIC Machine Specific Rregister (MSR) access with nested(=1) virtualization enabled. In that, L1 guest could access L0's APIC register values via L2 guest, when 'virtualize x2APIC mode' is enabled. A guest could use this flaw to potentially crash the host kernel resulting in DoS issue. Kernel versions from 4.16 and newer are vulnerable to this issue.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3979-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3980-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3980-2 Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T19:19:18.713Z

Reserved: 2019-01-03T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2019-3887

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-04-09T16:29:01.990

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:42:48.077

Link: CVE-2019-3887

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2019-04-05T16:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2019-3887 - Bugzilla

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