CVE-2018-10853

A flaw was found in the way Linux kernel KVM hypervisor before 4.18 emulated instructions such as sgdt/sidt/fxsave/fxrstor. It did not check current privilege(CPL) level while emulating unprivileged instructions. An unprivileged guest user/process could use this flaw to potentially escalate privileges inside guest.

Score
CVSS 3.0 7.8 High
Status
Modified - secalert@redhat.com
Published
2018-09-11
Last modified
2024-08-05
Weaknesses
CWE-250, CWE-269

Affected products

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