CVEvulnerability

CVE-2013-1935

5.7 MEDIUM Published 2013-07-16 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2013-07-16
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.7 MEDIUM — AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-362

Description

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 configurations

• redhat enterprise linux 6.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness

References