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

Leann Ogasawara leann.ogasawara at canonical.com
Thu Dec 13 18:47:25 UTC 2012


Applied to master-next for Oneiric, Precise, and Quantal.

Thanks,
Leann

On 12/13/2012 06:32 AM, 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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