CVE-2018-10853
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 e…
Published: 2018-09-11 · CVSS: 7.0 · CVSS 3.0
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.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7