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CVE-2018-10853
HIGH · CVSS 7
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-09-11T14:29:01.630 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:34:45.953

Summary

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.

Affected products

canonical — ubuntu_linux

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