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TITLE:
KVM XSAVE Handling Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA51160

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RELEASE DATE:
2012-11-07

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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in KVM, which can be exploited by
malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when handling the
X86_CR4_OSXSAVE bit upon guest enter and can be exploited to cause a
crash via KVM_SET_SREGS IOCTL.

Successful exploitation requires a host without the XSAVE feature
support.

SOLUTION:
No official solution is currently available.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Jon Howell

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=862900
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.kvm.devel/100742

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