medium5.7
CVE-2013-1935
A certain Red Hat patch to the KVM subsystem in the kernel package before 2.6.32-358.11.1.el6 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 does not properly implement …
Impact
A certain Red Hat patch to the KVM subsystem in the kernel package before 2.6.32-358.11.1.el6 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 does not properly implement the PV EOI feature, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) by leveraging a time window during which interrupts are disabled but copy_to_user function calls are possible.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Redhat | Enterprise Linux | Version 6.0 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0911.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=949981
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0907.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0911.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=949981
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0907.html