PT-2017-12377 · Linux+1 · Linux Kernel+1

Published 2016-11-28 · Updated 2024-01-25 · CVE-2017-12168

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 4.8.11

Description The issue allows privileged KVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service, leading to an assertion failure and host OS crash, by accessing the Performance Monitors Cycle Count Register.

Recommendations For versions prior to 4.8.11, update to version 4.8.11 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

Assertion Failure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-617

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-2367

ALT-PU-2017-1330

CVE-2017-12168

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Linux Kernel

References · 12

• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9e3f7a29694049edd728e2400ab57ad7553e5aa9 · Patch
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1492984 · Patch
• http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.8.11 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12168 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-12168 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-12168 · Vendor Advisory
• http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9e3f7a29694049edd728e2400ab57ad7553e5aa9 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-12168 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-12168 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-12168 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-12168 · Vendor Advisory
• https://git.kernel.org/linus/9e3f7a29694049edd728e2400ab57ad7553e5aa9 · Note