[kernel-sec-discuss] r5582 - dsa-texts

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Author: carnil
Date: 2017-09-20 19:24:44 +0000 (Wed, 20 Sep 2017)
New Revision: 5582

Modified:
   dsa-texts/4.9.30-2+deb9u5
Log:
Add description for CVE-2017-1000252

Modified: dsa-texts/4.9.30-2+deb9u5
===================================================================
--- dsa-texts/4.9.30-2+deb9u5	2017-09-20 19:18:13 UTC (rev 5581)
+++ dsa-texts/4.9.30-2+deb9u5	2017-09-20 19:24:44 UTC (rev 5582)
@@ -141,6 +141,11 @@
 
 CVE-2017-1000252 (stretch only)
 
+    Jan H. Schoenherr of Amazon reported that there exists a reachable
+    assertion failure in the KVM implementation with enabled Virtual
+    Function I/O feature (ONFIG_VFIO), allowing a malicious guest
+    process to crash the KVM hypervisor and causing a denial of service.
+
 CVE-2017-1000370
 
 CVE-2017-1000371