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CVE-2013-1797

Date: March 22, 2013

Use-after-free vulnerability in arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the Linux kernel through 3.8.4 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted application that triggers use of a guest physical address (GPA) in (1) movable or (2) removable memory during an MSR_KVM_SYSTEM_TIME kvm_set_msr_common operation.

Language: C

Severity Score

7.5

Related Resources (20)

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1812-1

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1813-1

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:176

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0928.html

Url: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0b79459b482e85cb7426aa7da683a9f2c97aeae1

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-05/msg00018.html

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1809-1

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=917013

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-06/msg00005.html

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00018.html

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1026.html

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/20/9

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0744.html

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-1797

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2013-1797

Url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0b79459b482e85cb7426aa7da683a9f2c97aeae1

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0727.html

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-1797

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0746.html

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2013-1797

Severity Score

7.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Resource Management Errors

CWE-399

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.5
Attack Vector (AV):	ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	6.8
Access Vector (AV):	ADJACENT
Access Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	COMPLETE
Integrity (I):	COMPLETE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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CVE-2013-1797

Date: March 22, 2013

Language: C

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