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CVE-2015-7513

6.5 mediumEPSS 0.6%

Medium (6.5). EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4 does not reset the PIT counter values during state restoration, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and host OS crash) via a zero value, related to the kvm_vm_ioctl_set_pit and kvm_vm_ioctl_set_pit2 functions.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

6.5 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 46% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-369
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

References

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