CVE-2016-9588

arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c en el kernek de Linux hasta la versión 4.9 no gestiona adecuadamente las excepciones #BP y #OF, lo que permite a usuarios del SO invitados provocar una denegación de servicio (caída del SO invitado) declinando el manejo de una excepción lanzada por un invitado L2.

Linux kernel built with the KVM visualization support (CONFIG_KVM), with nested visualization(nVMX) feature enabled(nested=1), is vulnerable to an uncaught exception issue. It could occur if an L2 guest was to throw an exception which is not handled by an L1 guest.

The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements. Security Fix: An use-after-free flaw was found in the Linux kernel which enables a race condition in the L2TPv3 IP Encapsulation feature. A local user could use this flaw to escalate their privileges or crash the system. A flaw was found that can be triggered in keyring_search_iterator in keyring.c if type->match is NULL. A local user could use this flaw to crash the system or, potentially, escalate their privileges.