CVE-2013-4127

medium

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the vhost_net_set_backend function in drivers/vhost/net.c in the Linux kernel through 3.10.3 allows local users to cause a denial of service (OOPS and system crash) via vectors involving powering on a virtual machine.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=984722

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=980643

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/15/7

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=dd7633ecd553a5e304d349aa6f8eb8a0417098c5

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2013-07-29

Updated: 2023-02-13

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H