CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-1601
4.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-05-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
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.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 3.3.5)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-06/msg00005.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0571.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0676.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49928 secunia.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2469 www.debian.org
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.3.6 www.kernel.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/30/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026897 www.securitytracker.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=808199 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9c895160d25a76c21b65bad141b08e8d4f99afef github.com
- https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2012/suse-su-20121679-1.html www.suse.com
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-06/msg00005.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0571.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0676.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49928 secunia.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2469 www.debian.org
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.3.6 www.kernel.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/30/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026897 www.securitytracker.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=808199 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9c895160d25a76c21b65bad141b08e8d4f99afef github.com
- https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2012/suse-su-20121679-1.html www.suse.com