A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's implementation of VFIO. An attacker issuing an ioctl can create a situation where memory is corrupted and modify memory outside of the expected area. This may overwrite kernel memory and subvert kernel execution.
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory |
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Amazon Linux 1 | kernel | 2016-12-06 23:44 | ALAS-2016-772 |
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
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Amazon Linux | CVSSv2 | 7.2 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
Amazon Linux | CVSSv3 | 5.3 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H |
NVD | CVSSv2 | 7.2 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
NVD | CVSSv3 | 7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |