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Use-after-free vulnerability in arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published May 17, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 10, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Mar 22, 2013
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 17, 2022
Last updated Feb 10, 2023

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

0.263%
(67th percentile)

Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

CVE-2013-1797

GHSA ID

GHSA-3fq7-5q53-mpg7

Source code

No known source code

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