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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-10853 Detail

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.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00043.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2029 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2043 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0036 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0103 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0179 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10853 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=129a72a0d3c8e139a04512325384fe5ac119e74 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Vendor Advisory 
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3c9fa24ca7c9c47605672916491f79e8ccacb9e6 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Vendor Advisory 
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00015.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00016.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00020.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-1/ CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-2/ CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/09/02/1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Patch  Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management cwe source acceptance level NIST  
CWE-250 Execution with Unnecessary Privileges Red Hat, Inc.  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2018-10853
NVD Published Date:
09/11/2018
NVD Last Modified:
11/20/2024
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.