National Vulnerability Database (NVD) National Vulnerability Database (CVE-2013-1798)

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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2013-1798

Original release date:03/22/2013

Last revised:04/05/2013

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

The ioapic_read_indirect function in virt/kvm/ioapic.c in the Linux kernel through 3.8.4 does not properly handle a certain combination of invalid IOAPIC_REG_SELECT and IOAPIC_REG_WINDOW operations, which allows guest OS users to obtain sensitive information from host OS memory or cause a denial of service (host OS OOPS) via a crafted application.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:6.2 (MEDIUM) (AV:A/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:C) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 9.2

Exploitability Subscore: 3.2

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Local network exploitable

Access Complexity: High

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a2c118bfab8bc6b8bb213abfc35201e441693d55

Type: Patch Information; Exploit

Hyperlink:https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a2c118bfab8bc6b8bb213abfc35201e441693d55

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a2c118bfab8bc6b8bb213abfc35201e441693d55

Type: Patch Information; Exploit

Hyperlink:http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a2c118bfab8bc6b8bb213abfc35201e441693d55

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=917017

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=917017

External Source: MLIST