CVE-2018-1087

Description

kernel KVM before versions kernel 4.16, kernel 4.16-rc7, kernel 4.17-rc1, kernel 4.17-rc2 and kernel 4.17-rc3 is vulnerable to a flaw in the way the Linux kernels KVM hypervisor handled exceptions delivered after a stack switch operation via Mov SS or Pop SS instructions. During the stack switch operation, the processor did not deliver interrupts and exceptions, rather they are delivered once the first instruction after the stack switch is executed. An unprivileged KVM guest user could use this flaw to crash the guest or, potentially, escalate their privileges in the guest.

Risk Information

Base Score
7.8
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
0.038

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
Linux kernel (USN-3207-1) linux-image-generic_3.13.0.147.157_amd64.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-3207-1) linux-image-lowlatency_3.13.0.147.157_amd64.debLinux
Linux hardware enablement kernel from Xenial for Trusty (USN-3364-2) linux-image-generic-lts-xenial_4.4.0.124.104_amd64.debLinux
Linux hardware enablement kernel from Xenial for Trusty (USN-3364-2) linux-image-generic-lts-xenial_4.4.0.124.104_i386.debLinux
Linux hardware enablement kernel from Xenial for Trusty (USN-3364-2) linux-image-lowlatency-lts-xenial_4.4.0.124.104_amd64.debLinux
Linux hardware enablement kernel from Xenial for Trusty (USN-3364-2) linux-image-lowlatency-lts-xenial_4.4.0.124.104_i386.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-3548-1) linux-image-lowlatency_4.13.0.41.44_i386.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-3583-1) linux-image-generic_3.13.0.147.157_i386.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-3583-1) linux-image-lowlatency_3.13.0.147.157_i386.debLinux
Linux hardware enablement (HWE) kernel (USN-3597-2) linux-image-generic-hwe-16.04_4.13.0.41.60_amd64.debLinux
Linux hardware enablement (HWE) kernel (USN-3597-2) linux-image-generic-hwe-16.04_4.13.0.41.60_i386.debLinux
Linux hardware enablement (HWE) kernel (USN-3597-2) linux-image-lowlatency-hwe-16.04_4.13.0.41.60_amd64.debLinux
Linux hardware enablement (HWE) kernel (USN-3597-2) linux-image-lowlatency-hwe-16.04_4.13.0.41.60_i386.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-3641-1) linux-image-aws_4.4.0.1019.19_amd64.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-3641-1) linux-image-aws_4.4.0.1057.59_amd64.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-3641-1) linux-image-kvm_4.4.0.1023.22_amd64.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-3641-1) linux-image-oem_4.13.0.1026.30_amd64.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-3641-1) linux-image-azure_4.13.0.1016.17_amd64.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-3641-1) linux-image-generic_4.13.0.41.44_i386.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-3641-1) linux-image-generic_4.13.0.41.44_amd64.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-3641-1) linux-image-generic_4.4.0.124.130_i386.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-3641-1) linux-image-generic_4.4.0.124.130_amd64.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-3641-1) linux-image-lowlatency_4.13.0.41.44_amd64.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-3641-1) linux-image-lowlatency_4.4.0.124.130_i386.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-3641-1) linux-image-lowlatency_4.4.0.124.130_amd64.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-3641-1) linux-image-4.4.0-1019-aws_4.4.0-1019.19_amd64.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-3641-1) linux-image-4.4.0-1023-kvm_4.4.0-1023.28_amd64.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-3641-1) linux-image-4.4.0-1057-aws_4.4.0-1057.66_amd64.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-3641-1) linux-image-4.13.0-1015-gcp_4.13.0-1015.19_amd64.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-3641-1) linux-image-4.13.0-1026-oem_4.13.0-1026.29_amd64.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-3641-1) linux-image-4.13.0-1016-azure_4.13.0-1016.19_amd64.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-3641-1) linux-image-4.13.0-41-generic_4.13.0-41.46_i386.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-3641-1) linux-image-4.13.0-41-generic_4.13.0-41.46_amd64.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-3641-1) linux-image-4.13.0-41-generic_4.13.0-41.46~16.04.1_i386.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-3641-1) linux-image-4.13.0-41-generic_4.13.0-41.46~16.04.1_amd64.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-3641-1) linux-image-4.4.0-124-generic_4.4.0-124.148_i386.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-3641-1) linux-image-4.4.0-124-generic_4.4.0-124.148_amd64.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-3641-1) linux-image-4.4.0-124-generic_4.4.0-124.148~14.04.1_i386.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-3641-1) linux-image-4.4.0-124-generic_4.4.0-124.148~14.04.1_amd64.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-3641-1) linux-image-4.4.0-9027-euclid_4.4.0-9027.29_amd64.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-3641-1) linux-image-3.13.0-147-generic_3.13.0-147.196_i386.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-3641-1) linux-image-3.13.0-147-generic_3.13.0-147.196_amd64.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-3641-1) linux-image-4.13.0-41-lowlatency_4.13.0-41.46_i386.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-3641-1) linux-image-4.13.0-41-lowlatency_4.13.0-41.46_amd64.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-3641-1) linux-image-4.13.0-41-lowlatency_4.13.0-41.46~16.04.1_i386.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-3641-1) linux-image-4.13.0-41-lowlatency_4.13.0-41.46~16.04.1_amd64.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-3641-1) linux-image-4.4.0-124-lowlatency_4.4.0-124.148_i386.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-3641-1) linux-image-4.4.0-124-lowlatency_4.4.0-124.148_amd64.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-3641-1) linux-image-4.4.0-124-lowlatency_4.4.0-124.148~14.04.1_i386.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-3641-1) linux-image-4.4.0-124-lowlatency_4.4.0-124.148~14.04.1_amd64.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-3641-1) linux-image-3.13.0-147-lowlatency_3.13.0-147.196_i386.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-3641-1) linux-image-3.13.0-147-lowlatency_3.13.0-147.196_amd64.debLinux
(RHSA-2018:1345) Important: kernel security update kernel-3.10.0-693.25.4.el7.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:1345) Important: kernel security update kernel-abi-whitelists-3.10.0-693.25.4.el7.noarch.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:1345) Important: kernel security update kernel-debug-3.10.0-693.25.4.el7.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:1345) Important: kernel security update kernel-debug-devel-3.10.0-693.25.4.el7.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:1345) Important: kernel security update kernel-devel-3.10.0-693.25.4.el7.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:1345) Important: kernel security update kernel-doc-3.10.0-693.25.4.el7.noarch.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:1345) Important: kernel security update kernel-headers-3.10.0-693.25.4.el7.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:1345) Important: kernel security update kernel-tools-3.10.0-693.25.4.el7.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:1345) Important: kernel security update kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-693.25.4.el7.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:1345) Important: kernel security update kernel-tools-libs-devel-3.10.0-693.25.4.el7.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:1345) Important: kernel security update perf-3.10.0-693.25.4.el7.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:1345) Important: kernel security update python-perf-3.10.0-693.25.4.el7.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:1347) Important: kernel security update kernel-3.10.0-327.66.3.el7.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:1347) Important: kernel security update kernel-abi-whitelists-3.10.0-327.66.3.el7.noarch.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:1347) Important: kernel security update kernel-debug-3.10.0-327.66.3.el7.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:1347) Important: kernel security update kernel-debug-devel-3.10.0-327.66.3.el7.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:1347) Important: kernel security update kernel-devel-3.10.0-327.66.3.el7.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:1347) Important: kernel security update kernel-doc-3.10.0-327.66.3.el7.noarch.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:1347) Important: kernel security update kernel-headers-3.10.0-327.66.3.el7.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:1347) Important: kernel security update kernel-tools-3.10.0-327.66.3.el7.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:1347) Important: kernel security update kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-327.66.3.el7.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:1347) Important: kernel security update kernel-tools-libs-devel-3.10.0-327.66.3.el7.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:1347) Important: kernel security update perf-3.10.0-327.66.3.el7.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:1347) Important: kernel security update python-perf-3.10.0-327.66.3.el7.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:1348) Important: kernel security update kernel-3.10.0-514.48.3.el7.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:1348) Important: kernel security update kernel-abi-whitelists-3.10.0-514.48.3.el7.noarch.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:1348) Important: kernel security update kernel-debug-3.10.0-514.48.3.el7.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:1348) Important: kernel security update kernel-debug-devel-3.10.0-514.48.3.el7.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:1348) Important: kernel security update kernel-devel-3.10.0-514.48.3.el7.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:1348) Important: kernel security update kernel-doc-3.10.0-514.48.3.el7.noarch.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:1348) Important: kernel security update kernel-headers-3.10.0-514.48.3.el7.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:1348) Important: kernel security update kernel-tools-3.10.0-514.48.3.el7.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:1348) Important: kernel security update kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-514.48.3.el7.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:1348) Important: kernel security update kernel-tools-libs-devel-3.10.0-514.48.3.el7.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:1348) Important: kernel security update perf-3.10.0-514.48.3.el7.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:1348) Important: kernel security update python-perf-3.10.0-514.48.3.el7.x86_64.rpmLinux

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234