Vulnerabilities > Stack-based Buffer Overflow

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2017-10-11 CVE-2017-12188 Stack-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Linux Kernel
arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c in the Linux kernel through 4.13.5, when nested virtualisation is used, does not properly traverse guest pagetable entries to resolve a guest virtual address, which allows L1 guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS or cause a denial of service (incorrect index during page walking, and host OS crash), aka an "MMU potential stack buffer overrun."
local
high complexity
linux CWE-121
7.8