VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2015-4692

CVSS score4.9 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.45%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2015-07-27
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Description

The kvm_apic_has_events function in arch/x86/kvm/lapic.h in the Linux kernel through 4.1.3 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging /dev/kvm access for an ioctl call.

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