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High severity7.0NVD Advisory· Published Sep 11, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-10853

CVE-2018-10853

Description

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.

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