CVE-2013-4592

2013-11-2000:00:00

ubuntu.com

4 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

10.1%

JSON

Memory leak in the __kvm_set_memory_region function in virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
in the Linux kernel before 3.9 allows local users to cause a denial of
service (memory consumption) by leveraging certain device access to trigger
movement of memory slots.

Bugs

<https://launchpad.net/bugs/1254900>

Notes

Author	Note
jdstrand	attacker requires privileged access to the host hardware to exploit per kernel team, too intrusive to backport

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu12.04noarchlinux< 3.2.0-58.88UNKNOWN
ubuntu12.10noarchlinux< 3.5.0-46.70UNKNOWN
ubuntu12.04noarchlinux-armadaxp< 3.2.0-1629.41UNKNOWN
ubuntu12.10noarchlinux-armadaxp< 3.5.0-1627.36UNKNOWN
ubuntu12.04noarchlinux-lts-quantal< 3.5.0-46.70~precise1UNKNOWN
ubuntu12.04noarchlinux-lts-raring< 3.8.0-36.52~precise1UNKNOWN
ubuntu12.04noarchlinux-ti-omap4< 3.2.0-1442.61UNKNOWN
ubuntu12.10noarchlinux-ti-omap4< 3.5.0-238.54UNKNOWN
ubuntu13.10noarchlinux-ti-omap4< 3.5.0-238.54UNKNOWN

OS	Version	Architecture	Package	Version	Filename
ubuntu	12.04	noarch	linux	< 3.2.0-58.88	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	12.10	noarch	linux	< 3.5.0-46.70	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	12.04	noarch	linux-armadaxp	< 3.2.0-1629.41	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	12.10	noarch	linux-armadaxp	< 3.5.0-1627.36	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	12.04	noarch	linux-lts-quantal	< 3.5.0-46.70~precise1	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	12.04	noarch	linux-lts-raring	< 3.8.0-36.52~precise1	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	12.04	noarch	linux-ti-omap4	< 3.2.0-1442.61	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	12.10	noarch	linux-ti-omap4	< 3.5.0-238.54	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	13.10	noarch	linux-ti-omap4	< 3.5.0-238.54	UNKNOWN