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Re: CVE-2018-16882 Kernel: KVM: nVMX: use after free in posted interrupt processing


From: P J P <ppandit () redhat com>
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2018 10:55:55 +0530 (IST)

  Hello Alex,

+-- On Tue, 18 Dec 2018, Alex Gaynor wrote --+
| Can you say more about why this is only a DoS? The commit message sounds (to 
| someone with little domain expertise in KVM) like a fairly traditional 
| pattern for an exploitable for code exec uaf.

That's right, it does have potential for more misuse, though it may not be as 
easy. I missed to mention that earlier.

Thank you.
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Prasad J Pandit / Red Hat Product Security Team
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