CVE-2013-5634

high

Description

arch/arm/kvm/arm.c in the Linux kernel before 3.10 on the ARM platform, when KVM is used, allows host OS users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference, OOPS, and host OS crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by omitting vCPU initialization before a KVM_GET_REG_LIST ioctl call.

References

https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.10.bz2

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/61995

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/08/26/4

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e8180dcaa8470ceca21109f143876fdcd9fe050a

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2013-09-25

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:A/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

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

Severity: High