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CVE-2012-1601 (GCVE-0-2012-1601)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-05-17 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 19:01
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Summary
The KVM implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.3.6 allows host OS users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash) by making a KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP ioctl call after a virtual CPU already exists.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2012-03-29 00:00
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Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.