CVE-2017-12168

Name	CVE-2017-12168
Description	The access_pmu_evcntr function in arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c in the Linux kernel before 4.8.11 allows privileged KVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and host OS crash) by accessing the Performance Monitors Cycle Count Register (PMCCNTR).
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, 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)	buster	4.19.249-2	fixed
	buster (security)	4.19.282-1	fixed
	bullseye	5.10.178-3	fixed
	bullseye (security)	5.10.179-1	fixed
	bookworm, sid	6.1.27-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version
linux	source	wheezy	(not affected)
linux	source	jessie	(not affected)
linux	source	(unstable)	4.8.11-1

Notes

[jessie] - linux <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
[wheezy] - linux <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
https://git.kernel.org/linus/9e3f7a29694049edd728e2400ab57ad7553e5aa9 (4.9-rc6)