| Name | CVE-2019-3887 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| linux (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 3.16.84-1 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 4.9.320-2 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 4.9.320-3 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 4.19.316-1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 5.10.223-1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 5.10.226-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 6.1.115-1 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 6.1.112-1 | fixed |
| trixie | 6.11.7-1 | fixed |
| sid | 6.11.9-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| linux | source | wheezy | (unfixed) | end-of-life | | |
| linux | source | jessie | (not affected) | | | |
| linux | source | stretch | (not affected) | | | |
| linux | source | (unstable) | 4.19.37-1 | | | |
Notes
[stretch] - linux <not-affected> (Vulnerability introduced later)
[jessie] - linux <not-affected> (Vulnerability introduced later)
Fixed by: https://git.kernel.org/linus/acff78477b9b4f26ecdf65733a4ed77fe837e9dc
Fixed by: https://git.kernel.org/linus/c73f4c998e1fd4249b9edfa39e23f4fda2b9b041