CVE-2015-4692 Null dereference in n/a

What is CVE-2015-4692?

CVE-2015-4692 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 27 Jul 2015. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The kvm_apic_has_events function in arch/x86/kvm/lapic.h in the Linux kernel through 4.1.3 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging /dev/kvm access for an ioctl call.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-4692?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2015-4692?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2015-4692 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-4692 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-4692, GHSA-wqc9-vcg5-v949, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-4692.