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CVE-2012-2137

Published: Jan 22, 2013

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

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Description

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=816151

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vendor-advisory

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vendor-advisory

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http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.2.24

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vendor-advisory

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third-party-advisory

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vendor-advisory

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vendor-advisory

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vendor-advisory

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http://ubuntu.5.n6.nabble.com/PATCH-Oneiric-CVE-2012-2137-KVM-Fix-buffer-overflow-in-kvm-set-irq-td4990566.html

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openSUSE-SU-2013:0925

vendor-advisory

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http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=f2ebd422f71cda9c791f76f85d2ca102ae34a1ed

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third-party-advisory

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vendor-advisory

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vdb-entry

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