CVE-2017-15306

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 4.13.11

Description The issue allows local users to cause a denial of service, resulting in a system crash due to a NULL pointer dereference. This can be achieved by making a KVM CHECK EXTENSION KVM CAP PPC HTM ioctl call to the /dev/kvm API endpoint.

Recommendations For Linux kernel versions prior to 4.13.11, update to version 4.13.11 or later to resolve the issue.