CVE-2013-0311
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Feb 22, 2013
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Dec 6, 2012
Description
The translate_desc function in drivers/vhost/vhost.c in the Linux kernel before 3.7 does not properly handle cross-region descriptors, which allows guest OS users to obtain host OS privileges by leveraging KVM guest OS privileges.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- RHSA-2013:0496vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2013:1187vendor-advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/bd97120fc3d1a11f3124c7c9ba1d91f51829eb85
- RHSA-2013:0882vendor-advisory
- MDVSA-2013:176vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2013:0928vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20130219 Re: CVE request -- Linux kernel: vhost: fix length for cross region descriptormailing-list
- RHSA-2013:0579vendor-advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=bd97120fc3d1a11f3124c7c9ba1d91f51829eb85
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=912905
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.7.bz2
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