CVE-2012-2119 (GCVE-0-2012-2119)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-01-22 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 19:26
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Summary
Buffer overflow in the macvtap device driver in the Linux kernel before 3.4.5, when running in certain configurations, allows privileged KVM guest users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long descriptor with a long vector length.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
redhat CNA under the redhat root
CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 1032 records in the last 180 days details
References
Date Public
2012-04-16 00:00
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      "cve": "CVE-2012-2119",
      "id": "CVE-2012-2119",
      "initial_release_date": "2012-04-16T00:00:00+00:00",
      "product_status:fixed": "440",
      "product_status:known_not_affected": "13",
      "source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
      "status": "final",
      "title": "kernel: macvtap: zerocopy: vector length is not validated before pinning user pages",
      "url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2012/cve-2012-2119.json",
      "version": "3"
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      "status": "interim",
      "title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2012-2119",
      "url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/2023/cve-2012-2119.json",
      "version": "18"
    }
  }
}



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