VYPR
Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 11, 2018· Updated Aug 5, 2024

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.

Affected products

147

Patches

0

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.

References

15

News mentions

0

No linked articles in our index yet.