CVE-2016-9777 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting KVM in the Linux kernel prior to version 4.8.12, specifically when I/O APIC is enabled. It allows a guest OS user to achieve host OS privileges or cause a denial of service through an out-of-bounds array access and host crash. The attack requires low privileges on the guest OS and has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, but high attack complexity. Currently, there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 4.8, < 4.8.12CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
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