CVE-2012-2137
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2013-01-22 23:00
Modified
2024-08-06 19:26
Severity ?
Summary
Buffer overflow in virt/kvm/irq_comm.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.2.24 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI), irq routing entries, and an incorrect check by the setup_routing_entry function before invoking the kvm_set_irq function.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=f2ebd422f71cda9c791f76f85d2ca102ae34a1edVendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-06/msg00005.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139447903326211&w=2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0743.htmlThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/50952Broken Link
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/50961Broken Link
secalert@redhat.comhttp://ubuntu.5.n6.nabble.com/PATCH-Oneiric-CVE-2012-2137-KVM-Fix-buffer-overflow-in-kvm-set-irq-td4990566.htmlThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1529-1Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1607-1Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.2.24Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54063Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1594-1Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1606-1Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1609-1Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=816151Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
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