CVSS 3.1
5.6 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2019-3887
Medium (5.6). EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
A flaw was found in the way KVM hypervisor handled x2APIC Machine Specific Rregister (MSR) access with nested(=1) virtualization enabled. In that, L1 guest could access L0's APIC register values via L2 guest, when 'virtualize x2APIC mode' is enabled. A guest could use this flaw to potentially crash the host kernel resulting in DoS issue. Kernel versions from 4.16 and newer are vulnerable to this issue.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 29% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-863
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- fedoraproject:fedora
- linux:linux_kernel
- redhat:enterprise_linux
- redhat:enterprise_linux_eus
- redhat:enterprise_linux_for_real_time
- redhat:enterprise_linux_for_real_time_for_nfv
- redhat:enterprise_linux_for_real_time_for_nfv_tus
- redhat:enterprise_linux_for_real_time_tus
- redhat:enterprise_linux_server_aus
- redhat:enterprise_linux_server_tus
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107850
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2703
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2741
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3887
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IWPOIII2L73HV5PGXSGMRMKQIK47UIYE/