kernel: kvm: out-of-bounds access in ioapic indirect register reads

The ioapicreadindirect function in virt/kvm/ioapic.c in the Linux kernel through 3.8.4 does not properly handle a certain combination of invalid IOAPICREGSELECT and IOAPICREGWINDOW operations, which allows guest OS users to obtain sensitive information from host OS memory or cause a denial of...

DEBIAN-CVE-2013-1798

The ioapicreadindirect function in virt/kvm/ioapic.c in the Linux kernel through 3.8.4 does not properly handle a certain combination of invalid IOAPICREGSELECT and IOAPICREGWINDOW operations, which allows guest OS users to obtain sensitive information from host OS memory or cause a denial of...

kernel: KVM: x86: Disallow hypercalls for guest callers in rings > 0

The kvmemulatehypercall function in arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in KVM in the Linux kernel 2.6.25-rc1, and other versions before 2.6.31, when running on x86 systems, does not prevent access to MMU hypercalls from ring 0, which allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service guest kernel crash and...