CVE-2012-1601 (GCVE-0-2012-1601)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-05-17 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 19:01
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Summary
The KVM implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.3.6 allows host OS users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash) by making a KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP ioctl call after a virtual CPU already exists.
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