Security Advisory

CVE-2012-1601

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2012-05-17 10:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 19:01:02

Assigner redhat

State PUBLISHED

Description

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.

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