oss-security - CVE request -- Linux kernel - kvm: x86: NULL pointer dereference in kvm_apic_has

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Message-ID: <20150610144114.GC19706@dhcp-25-225.brq.redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 16:41:14 +0200
From: Petr Matousek <pmatouse@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, cve-assign@...re.org
Subject: CVE request -- Linux kernel - kvm: x86: NULL pointer dereference in
 kvm_apic_has_events function

Please assign CVE to
https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/6/4/163.

A local user with access to /dev/kvm (usually unprivileged) can use this
flaw to crash the system.

Thanks,
-- 
Petr Matousek / Red Hat Product Security
PGP: 0xC44977CA 8107 AF16 A416 F9AF 18F3  D874 3E78 6F42 C449 77CA

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