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CVE-2017-7518
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-07-30T15:29:00.560 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:24:30.717

Summary

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel before version 4.12 in the way the KVM module processed the trap flag(TF) bit in EFLAGS during emulation of the syscall instruction, which leads to a debug exception(#DB) being raised in the guest stack. A user/process inside a guest could use this flaw to potentially escalate their privileges inside the guest. Linux guests are not affected by this.

Affected products

redhat — enterprise_linux

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