CVE-2013-4592

Description (CNA)

Memory leak in the __kvm_set_memory_region function in virt/kvm/kvm_main.c in the Linux kernel before 3.9 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by leveraging certain device access to trigger movement of memory slots.

Affected (CNA)

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00045.html
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2115-1
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1031702
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=12d6e7538e2d418c08f082b1b44ffa5fb7270ed8
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2116-1
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/e40f193f5bb022e927a57a4f5d5194e4f12ddb74
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2114-1
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1645.html
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e40f193f5bb022e927a57a4f5d5194e4f12ddb74
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2112-1
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/12d6e7538e2d418c08f082b1b44ffa5fb7270ed8
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2066-1
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2111-1
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2067-1
• https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.9.bz2
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/11/18/3

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