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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2019-3887

A guest could use this flaw to potentially crash the host kernel resulting in DoS issue.

MEDIUM 5.6EPSS 0.36%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.36%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

A flaw was found in the way KVM hypervisor handled x2APIC Machine Specific Rregister (MSR) access with nested(=1) virtualization enabled. In that, L1 guest could access L0's APIC register values via L2 guest, when 'virtualize x2APIC mode' is enabled. A guest could use this flaw to potentially crash the host kernel resulting in DoS issue. Kernel versions from 4.16 and newer are vulnerable to this issue.

CVSS 3.1
5.6 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
0.36% probability · 29th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-863
Affected
linux/linux kernel · fedoraproject/fedora · canonical/ubuntu linux · redhat/enterprise linux · redhat/enterprise linux eus · redhat/enterprise linux for real time · redhat/enterprise linux for real time for nfv · redhat/enterprise linux for real time for nfv tus · redhat/enterprise linux for real time tus · redhat/enterprise linux server aus · redhat/enterprise linux server tus
Source
secalert@redhat.com

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.