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Commit 54a20552 authored by Eric Northup's avatar Eric Northup Committed by Paolo Bonzini
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KVM: x86: work around infinite loop in microcode when #AC is delivered



It was found that a guest can DoS a host by triggering an infinite
stream of "alignment check" (#AC) exceptions.  This causes the
microcode to enter an infinite loop where the core never receives
another interrupt.  The host kernel panics pretty quickly due to the
effects (CVE-2015-5307).

Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Northup <digitaleric@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
parent d0e536d8
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