On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 01:22:52PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > From: Eric Northup <[email protected]> > > It was found that a guest can DoS a host by triggering an infinite > stream of "alignment check" (#AC) exceptions. This causes the > microcode to enter an infinite loop where the core never receives > another interrupt. The host kernel panics pretty quickly due to the > effects (CVE-2015-5307). > > Signed-off-by: Eric Northup <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Venkatesh Srinivas <[email protected]> -- vs; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
