{"id":"CVE-2016-9588","details":"arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the Linux kernel through 4.9 mismanages the #BP and #OF exceptions, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) by declining to handle an exception thrown by an L2 guest.","modified":"2026-03-12T22:30:01.028973Z","published":"2016-12-28T07:59:00.353Z","related":["MGASA-2017-0063","MGASA-2017-0064","MGASA-2017-0065","SUSE-SU-2017:1247-1","SUSE-SU-2017:1360-1"],"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/3822-2/"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/3822-1/"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94933"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1842"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3804"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2077"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1404924"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ef85b67385436ddc1998f45f1d6a210f935b3388"},{"type":"FIX","url":"http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ef85b67385436ddc1998f45f1d6a210f935b3388"},{"type":"FIX","url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/15/3"}],"affected":[{"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-9588.json","unresolved_ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"4.9"}]}]}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}