cve-2012-2119
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2013-01-22 23:00
Modified
2024-08-06 19:26
Severity ?
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=814278
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b92946e2919134ebe2a4083e4302236295ea2a73
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-06/msg00005.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=133455718001608&w=2
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0743.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1529-1
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.4.5
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/19/14
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b92946e2919134ebe2a4083e4302236295ea2a73
secalert@redhat.comhttps://oss.oracle.com/git/?p=redpatch.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4aae94d1c7b32316911c86176c0ed4f8ed62da73
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=814278
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b92946e2919134ebe2a4083e4302236295ea2a73
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-06/msg00005.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=133455718001608&w=2
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0743.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1529-1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.4.5
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/19/14
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b92946e2919134ebe2a4083e4302236295ea2a73
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://oss.oracle.com/git/?p=redpatch.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4aae94d1c7b32316911c86176c0ed4f8ed62da73
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