Published: 17/05/2012 Updated: 29/12/2017

CVSS v2 Base Score: 5.2 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 4.4

VMScore: 464

Vector: AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

The Linux kernel prior to 3.3.1, when KVM is used, allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) by leveraging administrative access to the guest OS, related to the pmd_none_or_clear_bad function and page faults for huge pages.

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Synopsis Important: kernel security and bug fix update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic Updated kernel packages that fix various security issues and three bugs arenow available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 61 Extended Update SupportThe Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update a ...

Synopsis Important: kernel security and bug fix update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugsare now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as havingimportant secur ...

Several security issues were fixed in the kernel ...

CWE-264 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.3.1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/15/7 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803793 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4a1d704194a441bf83c636004a479e01360ec850 http://secunia.com/advisories/48404 http://secunia.com/advisories/48898 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027084 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0743.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139447903326211&w=2 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-March/075781.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00021.html https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:1042 https://nvd.nist.gov https://usn.ubuntu.com/1431-1/

CVE-2012-1179

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