CVE-2013-1797

Medium

Description

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS6.8
Exploit probability—
ProductLinux Kernel
PublishedMar 22, 2013
First seenMar 22, 2013

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
linux linux_kernelv ≤ 3.8.4, 3.8.0, 3.8.1, 3.8.2, 3.8.3—

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