CVE-2012-1601

Description

The KVM implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.3.6 allows host OS users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash) by making a KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP ioctl call after a virtual CPU already exists.

References

https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2012/suse-su-20121679-1.html

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9c895160d25a76c21b65bad141b08e8d4f99afef

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=808199

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026897

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/30/1

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.3.6

http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2469

http://secunia.com/advisories/49928

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0676.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0571.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-06/msg00005.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3