fkie_cve-2013-1943
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2013-07-16 14:08
Modified
2024-11-21 01:50
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
The KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.0 does not check whether kernel addresses are specified during allocation of memory slots for use in a guest's physical address space, which allows local users to gain privileges or obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a crafted application, related to arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h and virt/kvm/kvm_main.c.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fa3d315a4ce2c0891cdde262562e710d95fba19e
secalert@redhat.comhttp://web.archive.org/web/20130329070349/http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/ChangeLog-3.0Broken Link
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1939-1Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=950490Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/fa3d315a4ce2c0891cdde262562e710d95fba19ePatch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fa3d315a4ce2c0891cdde262562e710d95fba19e
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://web.archive.org/web/20130329070349/http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/ChangeLog-3.0Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1939-1Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=950490Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/fa3d315a4ce2c0891cdde262562e710d95fba19ePatch, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
redhat enterprise_linux 5.0
redhat enterprise_linux_eus 6.2
redhat enterprise_linux_eus 6.3
canonical ubuntu_linux 10.04


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