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CVE-2013-4592

Date: November 19, 2013

Memory leak in the __kvm_set_memory_region function in virt/kvm/kvm_main.c in the Linux kernel before 3.9 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by leveraging certain device access to trigger movement of memory slots.

Language: C

Severity Score

5.1

Related Resources (21)

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4592

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2111-1

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4592

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00045.html

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2112-1

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2115-1

Url: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.9.bz2

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4592

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2114-1

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1645.html

Url: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e40f193f5bb022e927a57a4f5d5194e4f12ddb74

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/11/18/3

Url: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=12d6e7538e2d418c08f082b1b44ffa5fb7270ed8

Url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/12d6e7538e2d418c08f082b1b44ffa5fb7270ed8

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2067-1

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2066-1

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2116-1

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1031702

Url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/e40f193f5bb022e927a57a4f5d5194e4f12ddb74

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2013-4592

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2013-4592

Severity Score

5.1

Weakness Type (CWE)

Resource Management Errors

CWE-399

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.1
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	4.0
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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CVE-2013-4592

Date: November 19, 2013

Language: C

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