National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2013-1797

Overview

Use-after-free vulnerability in arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the Linux kernel through 3.8.4 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted application that triggers use of a guest physical address (GPA) in (1) movable or (2) removable memory during an MSR_KVM_SYSTEM_TIME kvm_set_msr_common operation.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0b79459b482e85cb7426aa7da683a9f2c97aeae1

Hyperlink:https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0b79459b482e85cb7426aa7da683a9f2c97aeae1

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=917013

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=917013

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-1813-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1813-1

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-1812-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1812-1

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-1809-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1809-1

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20130320 linux kernel: kvm: CVE-2013-179[6..8]

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/20/9

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2013:0746

Hyperlink:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0746.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2013:0744

Hyperlink:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0744.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2013:0727

Hyperlink:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0727.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: openSUSE-SU-2013:0847

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-05/msg00018.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0b79459b482e85cb7426aa7da683a9f2c97aeae1

Hyperlink:http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0b79459b482e85cb7426aa7da683a9f2c97aeae1