CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-1179
5.2 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-05-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.2 MEDIUM — AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
The Linux kernel before 3.3.1, when KVM is used, allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) by leveraging administrative access to the guest OS, related to the pmd_none_or_clear_bad function and page faults for huge pages.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 3.3)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-March/075781.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00021.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139447903326211&w=2 marc.info
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0743.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48404 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48898 secunia.com
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.3.1 www.kernel.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/15/7 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027084 www.securitytracker.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803793 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4a1d704194a441bf83c636004a479e01360ec850 github.com
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-March/075781.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00021.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139447903326211&w=2 marc.info
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0743.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48404 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48898 secunia.com
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.3.1 www.kernel.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/15/7 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027084 www.securitytracker.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803793 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4a1d704194a441bf83c636004a479e01360ec850 github.com