Tracker / CVE-2013-0311
CVE-2013-0311
Medium 6.5
The translate_desc function in drivers/vhost/vhost.c in the Linux kernel before 3.7 does not properly handle cross-region descriptors, which allows guest OS users to obtain host OS privileges by leveraging KVM guest OS privileges.
Affected products and versions
| linux | linux_kernel |
|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel · … → 3.6.11 |
| redhat | enterprise_linux |
Analysis
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