FKIE_CVE-2012-1179

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2012-05-17 11:00 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:39
Severity
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-March/075781.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00021.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139447903326211&w=2
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0743.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/48404
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/48898
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.3.1
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/15/7
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027084
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803793
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4a1d704194a441bf83c636004a479e01360ec850
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-March/075781.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00021.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139447903326211&w=2
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0743.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/48404
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/48898
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.3.1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/15/7
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027084
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803793
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4a1d704194a441bf83c636004a479e01360ec850
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
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