CVE-2012-1601

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.

Affected products

Centos, Linux Kernel, Red Hat, Suse, Libvmtools0, Libvmtools0-Debuginfo, Linux-2.6, Systemtap

Linux Linux Kernel

≤ 3.3.5

Fix

Available

CVSS 2.0

4.9 MEDIUM

EPSS

0.4% (34th percentile)

Weakness

CWE-399

NVD status

Modified

Published

2012-05-17