CVE-2018-10853 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00043.html https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2029 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2043 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0036 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0103 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0179 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10853 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=129a72a0d3c8e139a04512325384fe5ac119e74 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3c9fa24ca7c9c47605672916491f79e8ccacb9e6 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00015.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00016.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00020.html https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-2/ https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/09/02/1

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.8