Veracode Vulnerability DatabaseVERACODE:25004Denial Of Service (DoS)
4.7 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
kernel is vulnerable to denial of service. A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel’s KVM hypervisor implementation emulated the syscall instruction for 32-bit guests. An unprivileged guest user could trigger this flaw to crash the guest.
References
git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c2226fc9e87ba3da060e47333657cd6616652b84
git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c2226fc9e87ba3da060e47333657cd6616652b84
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-05/msg00013.html
www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.2.14
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/12/2
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:0350
access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773370
docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.2_Technical_Notes/kernel.html#RHSA-2012-0350
github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c2226fc9e87ba3da060e47333657cd6616652b84
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1530.html
Related
4.7 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C