CVE-2018-10853

Description

A flaw was found in the way Linux kernel KVM hypervisor before 4.18 emulated instructions such as sgdt/sidt/fxsave/fxrstor. It did not check current privilege(CPL) level while emulating unprivileged instructions. An unprivileged guest user/process could use this flaw to potentially escalate privileges inside guest.

References

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/09/02/1

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-2/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-1/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00020.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00016.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00015.html

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3c9fa24ca7c9c47605672916491f79e8ccacb9e6

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=129a72a0d3c8e139a04512325384fe5ac119e74

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10853

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0179

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0103

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0036

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2043

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2029

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00043.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3