Security Advisory

CVE-2013-0228

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2013-03-01 11:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 14:18:09
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

The xen_iret function in arch/x86/xen/xen-asm_32.S in the Linux kernel before 3.7.9 on 32-bit Xen paravirt_ops platforms does not properly handle an invalid value in the DS segment register, which allows guest OS users to gain guest OS privileges via a crafted application.