cve/2016/CVE-2016-9777.md

CVE-2016-9777

Description

KVM in the Linux kernel before 4.8.12, when I/O APIC is enabled, does not properly restrict the VCPU index, which allows guest OS users to gain host OS privileges or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access and host OS crash) via a crafted interrupt request, related to arch/x86/kvm/ioapic.c and arch/x86/kvm/ioapic.h.

POC

Reference

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Github

• https://github.com/thdusdl1219/CVE-Study