CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2012-1179

Published: May 17, 2012 | Modified: Dec 29, 2017
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
5.2 MEDIUM
AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

The Linux kernel before 3.3.1, when KVM is used, allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) by leveraging administrative access to the guest OS, related to the pmd_none_or_clear_bad function and page faults for huge pages.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Linux_kernel Linux * 3.3 (including)

References