Executive Summary

Informations
NameCVE-2012-2121First vendor Publication2012-05-17
VendorCveLast vendor Modification2013-04-18

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 3.3.4 does not properly manage the relationships between memory slots and the iommu, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory leak and host OS crash) by leveraging administrative access to the guest OS to conduct hotunplug and hotplug operations on devices.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-2121

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

idName
CWE-264Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Os1

Internal Sources (Detail)

SourceUrl
CONFIRMhttp://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.3.4
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=814149
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/09ca8e1173bcb12e2a449698c9ae3b86a8a1...
MLISThttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/19/16
REDHAThttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0743.html
SECTRACKhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027083
SECUNIAhttp://secunia.com/advisories/50732
UBUNTUhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1577-1

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