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CVE-2012-1179 (GCVE-0-2012-1179)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-05-17 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 18:53
VLAI
Summary
The Linux kernel before 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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0743.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027084 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://secunia.com/advisories/48898 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/15/7 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4a1d7041… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803793 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/48404 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139447903326211&w=2 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HP
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/Chang… x_refsource_CONFIRM
Date Public
2012-03-15 00:00
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