The KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.0 does...
Vulnerability Description
The KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.0 does not check whether kernel addresses are specified during allocation of memory slots for use in a guest's physical address space, which allows local users to gain privileges or obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a crafted application, related to arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h and virt/kvm/kvm_main.c.
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Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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References
- http://web.archive.org/web/20130329070349/http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/ChangeLog-3.0
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/fa3d315a4ce2c0891cdde262562e710d95fba19e
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=950490
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1939-1
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fa3d315a4ce2c0891cdde262562e710d95fba19e
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