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UBUNTU-CVE-2019-3887 Moderate

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-3887

A flaw was found in the way KVM hypervisor handled x2APIC Machine Specific Rregister (MSR) access with nested(=1) virtualization enabled. In that, L1 guest could access L0's APIC register values via L2 guest, when 'virtualize x2APIC mode' is enabled. A guest could use this flaw to potentially crash the host kernel resulting in DoS issue. Kernel versions from 4.16 and newer are vulnerable to this issue.

Exploit probability Not scored
Published April 9, 2019
Required by Not available
Last source change February 4, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS linux-azure

24 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS linux-gcp-edge

6 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS linux-hwe

6 explicit affected versions

03 / CONNECTIONS

Connected vulnerabilities

related USN-3979-1
related USN-3980-1

04 / EVIDENCE

Source records

Open Source Vulnerabilities UBUNTU-CVE-2019-3887

A flaw was found in the way KVM hypervisor handled x2APIC Machine Specific Rregister (MSR) access with nested(=1) virtualization enabled. In that, L1 guest could access L0's APIC register values via L2 guest, when 'virtualize x2APIC mode' is enabled. A guest could use this flaw to potentially crash the host kernel resulting in DoS issue. Kernel versions from 4.16 and newer are vulnerable to this issue.

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05 / REFERENCES

Further evidence