ghsa-ffvw-xh69-vrvc
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-05-13 01:24
Modified
2022-05-13 01:24
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details

The KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.0 does not check whether kernel addresses are specified during allocation of memory slots for use in a guest's physical address space, which allows local users to gain privileges or obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a crafted application, related to arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h and virt/kvm/kvm_main.c.

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2013-1943"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-20"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2013-07-16T14:08:00Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
  },
  "details": "The KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.0 does not check whether kernel addresses are specified during allocation of memory slots for use in a guest\u0027s physical address space, which allows local users to gain privileges or obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a crafted application, related to arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h and virt/kvm/kvm_main.c.",
  "id": "GHSA-ffvw-xh69-vrvc",
  "modified": "2022-05-13T01:24:43Z",
  "published": "2022-05-13T01:24:43Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-1943"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/fa3d315a4ce2c0891cdde262562e710d95fba19e"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:0911"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-1943"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=950490"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fa3d315a4ce2c0891cdde262562e710d95fba19e"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=fa3d315a4ce2c0891cdde262562e710d95fba19e"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20130329070349/http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/ChangeLog-3.0"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1939-1"
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  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ]
}


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