Published: 16/07/2013 Updated: 13/02/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.4 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 3.4

CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.8

VMScore: 393

Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

The KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel prior to 3.0 does not check whether kernel addresses are specified during allocation of memory slots for use in a guest's physical address space, which allows local users to gain privileges or obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a crafted application, related to arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h and virt/kvm/kvm_main.c.

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Several security issues were fixed in the kernel ...

CWE-20 http://web.archive.org/web/20130329070349/http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/ChangeLog-3.0 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=950490 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/fa3d315a4ce2c0891cdde262562e710d95fba19e http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1939-1 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fa3d315a4ce2c0891cdde262562e710d95fba19e https://nvd.nist.gov https://usn.ubuntu.com/1939-1/

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