ACK: [CVE-2012-4461] kvm: invalid opcode oops on SET_SREGS with OSXSAVE bit set

Stefan Bader stefan.bader at canonical.com
Thu Dec 13 14:41:13 UTC 2012


On 13.12.2012 15:32, Luis Henriques wrote:
> On hosts without the XSAVE support unprivileged local user can trigger
> oops by setting X86_CR4_OSXSAVE bit in guest cr4 register using
> KVM_SET_SREGS ioctl and later issuing KVM_RUN ioctl.
> 
> Following this email, there's a patch that fixes this issue for Precise
> and Quantal.  This patch is a clean cherry-pick from
> 6d1068b3a98519247d8ba4ec85cd40ac136dbdf9.
> 
> There's also another patch that fixes this for Oneiric, a backport of
> the same SHA1.
> 
> Cheers,
> --
> Luis
> 


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