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Tracker / CVE-2013-1796

CVE-2013-1796

Medium 6.8

The kvm_set_msr_common function in arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the Linux kernel through 3.8.4 does not ensure a required time_page alignment during an MSR_KVM_SYSTEM_TIME operation, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and host OS memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted application.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · … → 3.8.4

Analysis

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