CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-2137
6.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-01-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
Buffer overflow in virt/kvm/irq_comm.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.2.24 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI), irq routing entries, and an incorrect check by the setup_routing_entry function before invoking the kvm_set_irq function.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.33 < 3.0.72)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.1 < 3.2.24)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.3 < 3.4.81)
• canonical ubuntu linux 10.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 11.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=f2ebd422f71cda9c791f76f85d2ca102ae34a1ed Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-06/msg00005.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139447903326211&w=2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0743.html Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50952 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50961 Broken Link
- http://ubuntu.5.n6.nabble.com/PATCH-Oneiric-CVE-2012-2137-KVM-Fix-buffer-overflow-in-kvm-set-irq-td4990566.html Third Party Advisory
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1529-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1607-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.2.24 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54063 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1594-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1606-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1609-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=816151 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=f2ebd422f71cda9c791f76f85d2ca102ae34a1ed Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-06/msg00005.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139447903326211&w=2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0743.html Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50952 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50961 Broken Link
- http://ubuntu.5.n6.nabble.com/PATCH-Oneiric-CVE-2012-2137-KVM-Fix-buffer-overflow-in-kvm-set-irq-td4990566.html Third Party Advisory
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1529-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1607-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.2.24 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54063 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1594-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1606-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1609-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=816151 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory