CVE-2019-3016: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 4.7. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In a Linux KVM guest that has PV TLB enabled, a process in the guest kernel may be able to read memory locations from another process in the same guest. This problem is limit to the host running linux kernel 4.10 with a guest running linux kernel 4.16 or later. The problem mainly affects AMD processors but Intel CPUs cannot be ruled out.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 4.16; version 4.10 only

Published 2020-01-31. Last modified 2026-06-17.