CVE-2013-1935

Published Jul 16, 2013

Last updated 6 years ago

Overview

Description: A certain Red Hat patch to the KVM subsystem in the kernel package before 2.6.32-358.11.1.el6 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 does not properly implement the PV EOI feature, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) by leveraging a time window during which interrupts are disabled but copy_to_user function calls are possible.
Source: secalert@redhat.com
NVD status: Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 5.7
Impact score: 6.9
Exploitability score: 5.5
Vector string: AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-362

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "2F6AB192-9D7D-4A9A-8995-E53A9DE9EAFC"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References