Use-after-free vulnerability in the vhost_net_set_backend function in drivers/vhost/net.c in the...
Vulnerability Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in the vhost_net_set_backend function in drivers/vhost/net.c in the Linux kernel through 3.10.3 allows local users to cause a denial of service (OOPS and system crash) via vectors involving powering on a virtual machine.
Impact Analysis
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Remediation
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References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=980643
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/dd7633ecd553a5e304d349aa6f8eb8a0417098c5
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/15/7
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=984722
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=dd7633ecd553a5e304d349aa6f8eb8a0417098c5
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