CVE-2015-4692: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 4.1.3

Published 2015-07-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.