CVE-2012-1179
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- May 17, 2012
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Feb 14, 2012
Description
The Linux kernel before 3.3.1, when KVM is used, allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) by leveraging administrative access to the guest OS, related to the pmd_none_or_clear_bad function and page faults for huge pages.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- RHSA-2012:0743vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SU-2012:0554vendor-advisory
- 1027084vdb-entry
- 48898third-party-advisory
- [oss-security] 20120315 CVE-2012-1179 kernel: thp: __split_huge_page() mapcount != page_mapcount BUG_ON()mailing-list
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4a1d704194a441bf83c636004a479e01360ec850
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803793
- 48404third-party-advisory
- FEDORA-2012-3712vendor-advisory
- HPSBGN02970vendor-advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.3.1
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