UBUNTU-CVE-2017-1000252

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2017-1000252

    Published: 26 Sept 2017Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: The KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 4.13.3 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (assertion failure, and hypervisor hang or crash) via an out-of bounds guest_irq value, related to arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c and virt/kvm/eventfd.c.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-1000252, https://marc.info/?l=kvm&m=150549145711115&w=2, https://marc.info/?l=kvm&m=150549146311117&w=2, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3468-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3468-2, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3468-3, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-1000252

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: linux-lts-xenial

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~14.04.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -4.4.0-98.121~14.04.1

    Affected versions

    4.4.0-13.29~14.04.1
    4.4.0-14.30~14.04.2
    4.4.0-15.31~14.04.1
    4.4.0-18.34~14.04.1
    4.4.0-21.37~14.04.1
    4.4.0-22.39~14.04.1
    4.4.0-22.40~14.04.1
    4.4.0-24.43~14.04.1
    4.4.0-28.47~14.04.1
    4.4.0-31.50~14.04.1
    4.4.0-34.53~14.04.1
    4.4.0-36.55~14.04.1
    4.4.0-38.57~14.04.1
    4.4.0-42.62~14.04.1
    4.4.0-45.66~14.04.1
    4.4.0-47.68~14.04.1
    4.4.0-51.72~14.04.1
    4.4.0-53.74~14.04.1
    4.4.0-57.78~14.04.1
    4.4.0-59.80~14.04.1
    4.4.0-62.83~14.04.1
    4.4.0-63.84~14.04.2
    4.4.0-64.85~14.04.1
    4.4.0-66.87~14.04.1
    4.4.0-67.88~14.04.1
    4.4.0-70.91~14.04.1
    4.4.0-71.92~14.04.1
    4.4.0-72.93~14.04.1
    4.4.0-75.96~14.04.1
    4.4.0-78.99~14.04.2
    4.4.0-79.100~14.04.1
    4.4.0-81.104~14.04.1
    4.4.0-83.106~14.04.1
    4.4.0-87.110~14.04.1
    4.4.0-89.112~14.04.1
    4.4.0-91.114~14.04.1
    4.4.0-92.115~14.04.1
    4.4.0-93.116~14.04.1
    4.4.0-96.119~14.04.1
    4.4.0-97.120~14.04.1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High