CVE-2012-1179

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control

Publication date:

17/05/2012

Last modified:

11/04/2025

Description

The Linux kernel before 3.3.1, when KVM is used, allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) by leveraging administrative access to the guest OS, related to the pmd_none_or_clear_bad function and page faults for huge pages.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.20 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Adjacent
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): Single
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Complete