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CVE-2012-1601

CVSS v2.0 4.9 (Medium)
49% Progress
EPSS 0.06 % (28th)
0.06% Progress
Affected Products 1
Advisories 28
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The KVM implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.3.6 allows host OS users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash) by making a KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP ioctl call after a virtual CPU already exists.

Weaknesses
CWE-399
Resource Management Errors
CVE Status
PUBLISHED
CNA
Red Hat, Inc.
Published Date
2012-05-17 11:00:37
(12 years ago)
Updated Date
2018-01-05 02:29:29
(6 years ago)

Affected Products

Linux

Configuration #1

    CPE23 From Up To
  Linux Kernel 3.3.5 and prior versions cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel <= 3.3.5