VYPR
Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Apr 24, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2017-8106

CVE-2017-8106

Description

The handle_invept function in arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the Linux kernel 3.12 through 3.15 allows privileged KVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash) via a single-context INVEPT instruction with a NULL EPT pointer.

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