Executive Summary

Informations
NameCVE-2012-1601First vendor Publication2012-05-17
VendorCveLast vendor Modification2013-01-23

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Cvss Base Score4.9Attack RangeLocal
Cvss Impact Score6.9Attack ComplexityLow
Cvss Expoit Score3.9AuthentificationNone Required
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Detail

The KVM implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.3.6 allows host OS users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash) by making a KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP ioctl call after a virtual CPU already exists.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-1601

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

idName
CWE-399Resource Management Errors

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Os1

Internal Sources (Detail)

SourceUrl
CONFIRMhttp://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.3.6
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=808199
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9c895160d25a76c21b65bad141b08e8d4f99...
MLISThttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/30/1
SECTRACKhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026897
SECUNIAhttp://secunia.com/advisories/49928
SUSEhttps://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2012/suse-su-20121679-1.html

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2012-12-06 13:20:14
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