CVEvulnerability

CVE-2013-1797

6.8 MEDIUM Published 2013-03-22 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2013-03-22
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:A/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-399

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the Linux kernel through 3.8.4 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted application that triggers use of a guest physical address (GPA) in (1) movable or (2) removable memory during an MSR_KVM_SYSTEM_TIME kvm_set_msr_common operation.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 3.8.4) • linux linux kernel 3.8.0 • linux linux kernel 3.8.1 • linux linux kernel 3.8.2 • linux linux kernel 3.8.3

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References