Detections
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CVE-2013-1943
high
Description
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
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/fa3d315a4ce2c0891cdde262562e710d95fba19e
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=950490