CVE-2013-2017

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Red Hat Security Advisory 2013-0911-01

Posted Jun 11, 2013

Authored by Red Hat | Site access.redhat.com

Red Hat Security Advisory 2013-0911-01 - The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. A flaw was found in the way KVM initialized a guest's registered pv_eoi indication flag when entering the guest. An unprivileged guest user could potentially use this flaw to crash the host. A missing sanity check was found in the kvm_set_memory_region() function in KVM, allowing a user-space process to register memory regions pointing to the kernel address space. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to escalate their privileges.

tags | advisory, kernel, local

systems | linux, redhat

advisories | CVE-2013-1935, CVE-2013-1943, CVE-2013-2017

SHA-256 | 4ea91716af9485fdaf2f63c4557f8a45dc42eca46d9ce7f61bd81b7aba88cb86

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