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nvd[email protected]NVD:CVE-2012-2121
HistoryMay 17, 2012 - 11:00 a.m.

CVE-2012-2121

2012-05-1711:00:38
CWE-264
web.nvd.nist.gov
7

CVSS2

4.9

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

AI Score

6

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

26.7%

The KVM implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.3.4 does not properly manage the relationships between memory slots and the iommu, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory leak and host OS crash) by leveraging administrative access to the guest OS to conduct hotunplug and hotplug operations on devices.

Affected configurations

Nvd
Node
linuxlinux_kernelRange3.3.3

CVSS2

4.9

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

AI Score

6

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

26.7%