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Tracker / CVE-2013-4587

CVE-2013-4587

High 7.2

Array index error in the kvm_vm_ioctl_create_vcpu function in virt/kvm/kvm_main.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.12.5 allows local users to gain privileges via a large id value.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · … → 3.2.54
linux linux_kernel · 3.11 → 3.12.6
linux linux_kernel · 3.3 → 3.4.75
linux linux_kernel · 3.5 → 3.10.25
opensuse opensuse

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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