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CVE-2017-8106

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-04-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

The handle_invept function in arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the Linux kernel 3.12 through 3.15 allows privileged KVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash) via a single-context INVEPT instruction with a NULL EPT pointer.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: 3.12, 3.12.1, 3.12.2, 3.12.3, 3.12.4, 3.12.5 (+58)

References

• https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195167
• https://launchpad.net/bugs/1678676
• https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195167
• https://launchpad.net/bugs/1678676

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