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CVE-2012-1179

Date: May 17, 2012

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

Related Resources (15)

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4a1d704194a441bf83c636004a479e01360ec850
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803793
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-March/075781.html
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-1179
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/15/7
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2012-1179
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027084
http://secunia.com/advisories/48404
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0743.html
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.3.1
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-1179
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00021.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/48898
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139447903326211&w=2
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2012-1179

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control

CWE-264

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): HIGH
Privileges Required (PR): LOW
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): ADJACENT
Access Complexity (AC): MEDIUM
Authentication (AU): SINGLE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): COMPLETE
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